Tanya Plibersek urges Australians in Lebanon to return home

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, has urged all Australians in Lebanon to return home as uncertainty in the region continues to grow.

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00:00Australia has been urging de-escalation and immediate ceasefire.

00:06Penny Wong is at the UN with a lot of world leaders at the moment and I'm sure this is

00:12top of their list for discussion.

00:15What we have been saying since October last year is that any Australians that are in Lebanon

00:20should come home immediately.

00:23If Australians here have relatives in Lebanon who are Australian citizens, they should urge

00:27them to come home.

00:28This is a very dangerous situation, it's changing on the ground very quickly and of course we

00:35would always try and get Australians home but it becomes very difficult.

00:39If the airport there closes, as it may, unexpectedly, it may close for long periods of time, it

00:45will be very difficult to get everybody home.

00:47So please, our message is please come home now if you possibly can.

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