Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for the remonstration, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is always appreciated. The Australia-Indonesia relationship contains within the allocation to the aid program $165.9 million in 2006-07. The question to the minister in the short time remaining is: have you obtained from the Indonesians an assurance and a guarantee that Abu Bakar Bashir will be placed under 24-hour a day surveillance from this time on and have you obtained from the Indonesians a guarantee that if the religious schools, to which he has now returned, continue with anti-Australian and anti-Western incitement those schools will be closed? The second question I would pose to the minister in the remaining time is with regard to the allocation of $1.64 billion on the Iraq war so far. Can the minister confirm to the Committee the precise number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed since the commencement of hostilities in March 2003?

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