Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Coonan. I ask: what response has the minister to my letter requesting a visit to David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay when I am in the United States in the coming week? I wrote to the American government two months ago about this. The ambassador wrote back to say that the clearing house was the Australian Embassy in Washington. I then wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and I ask what his response is. What efforts has he made to ensure that I will be able, as an Australian senator, to visit Guantanamo Bay? Is it true that some dozens of United States senators have been to that facility?