John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Siewert for her supplementary question. I am personally not aware of those reports and I do not know if any government agencies are, so all I can do there is undertake to find that out for you, Senator. I will do that. My understanding is that the oil spill is not in Indonesian territorial waters but, as I have indicated, some 230 kilometres from the nearest Indonesian coastline. That is the only information I have available to me, Senator Siewert. I can say that Indonesian authorities have been kept informed, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, of the location of the residual oil sheen and progress with the oil spill response and the relief well drilling operation. (Time expired)