Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Our position remains unchanged and our sanctions prove that. Following Fiji's coup, Australia prohibited individuals travelling to, or transiting, Australia who are members of or associated with the Fiji military or senior members of Fiji's interim government. Our sanctions apply to the supply, the sale or the transfer to Fiji of arms and related material. They apply to the provision of technical advice or a financial service related to military activities or an activity involving the supply, sale, transfer, manufacture, maintenance or use of an export sanctioned good for Fiji.

Following a meeting I hosted in Sydney in July last year involving the foreign ministers of New Zealand and Fiji, Australia has agreed to be more flexible with its travel sanctions and to reinstate respective high commissioners, but what we want is an indisputable return to democracy in that country. (Time expired)