David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for the answer. My supplementary question is: in light of the Royal Netherlands Army suffering four casualties on 6 April—one dead and three wounded—at their base from a rocket attack a mere few hundred metres away from Australians based in Tarin Kowt, hasn’t it been because of a good deal of good luck as opposed to good management, given our lack of a sufficiently functioning and proven capability to sense and warn, particularly as to incoming rockets, that we have not suffered similar casualties to this point?