Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, in the lead-up to the last election the Prime Minister claimed:

… when I make a mistake, I'll fess up to it, and I'll set about correcting that mistake. I won't blame someone else, I'll accept responsibility. That's what leaders do.

In light of the intense criticism from the tourism industry, the endless inconsistencies in Minister King's public statements, the views of the Queensland Labor government and the statement of federal Labor President Wayne Swan, why won't the Prime Minister take responsibility for his government's mistake in the handling of the Qatar Airways application and set about correcting it?