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Thursday, 30 October 2003
Page: 17308


Senator HILL (Minister for Defence) (3:00 PM) —I have some further information in answer to a question asked of me today by Senator Robert Ray regarding Dr Mahathir's comments. In the margins of APEC, on 18 October, Mr Downer had a short meeting, at Mr Downer's request, with the Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister to express his deep concern about Dr Mahathir's reported comments. Mr Downer said that anti-Semitism was totally unacceptable. On 17 October the Prime Minister made clear publicly his total rejection of these reported comments. He also made it clear that he did not intend to take the matter any further, noting that Dr Mahathir was shortly to retire.