Mr CREAN (2:17 PM) —My question is to the Prime Minister, and it follows his answer to my earlier question. Can the Prime Minister confirm that it is not ONA's role to determine travel warnings but that that is the responsibility of the Minister for Foreign Affairs? Doesn't the ONA submission released yesterday confirm that the foreign minister was briefed about Bali being an attractive terrorist target of Jemaah Islamiah four months before the Bali bombing?

Mr HOWARD (Prime Minister) —The arrangements regarding travel advisories do involve a judgment made by the foreign minister and by DFAT, and nobody is suggesting otherwise in my answer. But the point I made in the answer, and the point I would make again in reply to the Leader of the Opposition, is that you adjust travel advisories on the basis of specific information, and there was no specific information.

Mr Crean —It was an attractive target.

Mr HOWARD —I would remind the Leader of the Opposition that that was not based on any intelligence, any advice or any facts.