Australian Foreign Affairs minister, Marise Payne, told the ABC she remains “inclined to returning to Afghanistan in the next few months”.
A spokesman for Senator Payne said Australia's diplomatic arrangements in Afghanistan "were always expected to be temporary, with the intention of resuming a permanent presence once circumstances permit.
Payne has been largely vocal in the past about her reluctance to remove soldiers from Afghanistan and opposed the bill to remove the last soldiers earlier this year.