Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

I informed the Prime Minister prior to my decision being made public, and normally these decisions are not made public. And, for context, my office had received multiple media requests about the women who were escorted off a Qatar Airways flight in Doha and subject to invasive searches and their views on the air services agreement request from Qatar.

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