Senate debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Questions without Notice

Ukraine

2:53 pm

Photo of Don FarrellDon Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, thank you, President. The significant scale of Australian military assistance means that we are still delivering items and will continue to do so over the coming months. For context, the scale of our support includes over 100 vehicles and heavy artillery. We've already flown more than 30 C-17 and Ukrainian Antonov flights with assistance from Australia. Delivering items from the other side of the world, of course, as you might appreciate, is an immense logistical effort, but this government is prepared to continue to do that. Of course, one of the first things that our Prime Minister did, on becoming Prime Minister, was visit Kyiv and visit the President of Ukraine. Rest assured— (Time expired)

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