Fed: Airport bottleneck forces Hill to cancel Banda Aceh visit

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: January 8, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
01-08-2005
Fed: Airport bottleneck forces Hill to cancel Banda Aceh visit

CANBERRA, Jan 8 AAP - A bottleneck at Banda Aceh airport has forced Defence Minister
Robert Hill to cancel his trip to that part of Indonesia worst affected by the tsunami
disaster.

Senator Hill flew to the island of Sumatra yesterday to visit hundreds of Australian
defence personnel based in Medan and Banda Aceh who are involved in the huge relief effort.

But the minister has cancelled his trip to Banda Aceh, the city in war-torn Aceh province,
devastated by the tsunami caused by a huge ...

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