“Are you drawing a link between the Bali bombings and refugees coming to Australia for medical services?”. 9News
Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds has been accused of linking terrorism and refugees seeking medical treatment in Australia in a discussion about the twin terror attacks in New Zealand.
She went on to say the issue was “very personal” for her, and that she had been sickened when members of the senate supported Labor’s amendments to the medivac bill because she has “lived through terrorism”. “I was one of the few who has lived through terrorism and the impact up in the Bali bombings, I was up there, I saw, I smelt and I got to understand the what was happening,” she told the Q&A audience in Townsville.
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