George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I am aware of some that might answer the description that you have offered, Senator Roberts, though this is not a comprehensive list. But can I tell you that examples of similar public diplomacy visits include a funded visit by Mr Greg Sheridan of The Australian to Indonesia in March 2016; a visit by the Reverend John Henderson, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Australia, to the Holy See in November 2007; and, perhaps a little more broadly than the category you have identified, visits by Professor Ian Frazer, the creator of the HPV vaccine and 2006 Australian of the Year, to South-East Asia, and by Yassmin Abdel-Magied also to the ASEAN emerging leaders dialogue in Malaysia in 2010. So there are a wide variety of these visits, representing a wide variety of Australian points of view. (Time expired)