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

This is about the safety of Australians.

I will come to that, but you also made a political assertion at the end of your question and I need to rebut that. This is about the safety of Australians. We know, as Dr Thafer from the Gulf International Forum said on Radio National today, the UAE has faced more missile and drone attacks than Israel. We have people in the UAE, so it is our obligation to help them.