Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s comments on national radio this morning when he was asked whether it was necessary that Iraq remain a single state as a prerequisite for troop withdrawal and his reply:

Well, I think that’s desirable, but once again that’s a degree of micro management by another country and another leader that is not necessarily justified.

Will the Prime Minister now confirm that, as of today, his government’s policy of ‘getting the job done in Iraq’ no longer requires leaving behind a unified Iraqi state?

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