Whats the Governments advice Australians planning to travel to Thailand?
PM: We have been following events in Thailand very closely. The Department of Foreign Affairs has recently, I’m advised, changed the travel advisory for Australian citizens and the advice now from the Department of Foreign Affairs is that people should reconsider their need to travel. Can I say this very clearly to all Australians who are thinking about travelling to Thailand and those who are there: read carefully, very carefully, the evolving travel advice of the Australian Government. We do not write these things up there on a whim. We are following events closely in Thailand. We have many Australians in Thailand and many who regularly travel there. When we say in our travel advisory you should reconsider your need to travel, we mean that. This is a very dangerous and explosive situation in Thailand and we need to be very, very careful that Australians don’t get caught up in any trouble. We know that we’ve already had one Australian injured on April 22 when a bomb exploded at a trai
