Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for the answer and I understand that the government supports the Afghan national drug control strategy. But, given that there has been a 60 per cent surge in cultivation this year alone and that the opium production in Afghanistan now accounts for 92 per cent of the total world supply, clearly it is not working. Minister, I return to my original question: what is the government’s policy on the suggestion that we use military action to eradicate opium production in Afghanistan?