Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister did not answer my question as to whether it was the case that not even the Iraqi government requested these 70 extra troops for training. Was the Prime Minister perhaps taking his orders from Mr Cheney, who said last week that the jihadists had to be stopped, otherwise they would come down from Afghanistan, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia and beyond? Does the Prime Minister believe this domino theory?