Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I am not going to, on behalf of the foreign minister, engage in some quantitative or qualitative comparison between this government and the United Kingdom. I repeat my previous answer to Senator Allison that Mr Hicks’s application for United Kingdom citizenship and the course it might take is a matter for both Mr Hicks and the United Kingdom government and certainly not the Australian government.