Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I mentioned, Mr Rudd has spoken directly to the Egyptian foreign minister—on 28 January, on 3 February and on 8 February. So he has actually spoken directly to the foreign minister on the matters that you have raised to express our deep concern about the intimidation of journalists and opposition activists.

Again, you made some statements about the Vice-President of Egypt. It is not appropriate for us to speculate on the operations of another country’s intelligence service. On the question around Mr Habib’s—