Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Mr Mark Sullivan, the chair of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal, wrote to the minister out of concern that she had misled the Senate in her statement on 13 May regarding Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean. Can the minister confirm that Mr Sullivan's letter said that the 2019 tribunal review found 'new evidence was presented and the tribunal found that the evidence provided to the British Admiralty was inaccurate and that it understated Sheean's actions', and the tribunal determined that Sheean fulfilled the criteria for the Victoria Cross for Australia?