Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Faulkner, the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I ask, in light of the extraordinary tragedy in Bihar state in India, where three million people are displaced by flooding of the Kosi River, with 250,000 houses swept away and estimates of up to 3,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands starving, what urgent and immediate aid has Australia offered and been able to deliver to this disaster area? What further aid is being considered by the government?