Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I seek leave to make a statement following those statements.

Leave granted.

The pertinent point here is that Donald Rumsfeld was the architect of the rules which permitted egregious torture in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere under the rubric of statements such as that quoted in the motion. If we do not stand up to that sort of philosophy, if we do not make a stand against it, then we cross the line to breach international rules, international laws and domestic laws, and to torture itself.