Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very happy to be honest with the Australian people about the reality, which is what I always seek to do. I would make this point: I'm asked about facilities and so forth; I have it made clear that I've been asked about that publicly and I have responded, and I refer you to that answer. A point I would make is that being honest about it might include a question on the attack on Dubai airport by Iran. Being honest about it might include an Iranian drone strike attack on the Royal Air Force base, the UK base, in Cyprus.

Given your interjection before, sir, you might say that's okay because it's a base. Well, these are not countries—