Dave Sharma (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question was: why did the minister not stand up last week and reiterate that travel advice from her department, because, clearly, given the significant US military build-up in the region, given we were ordering the departures of dependants and facilitating the departures of others, we saw this crisis coming? Wouldn't acting earlier have allowed us to mitigate the impact on Australians abroad and doesn't this represent a failure of preparedness and communication that has left Australians stranded with limited options?