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

To move:

That the Senate calls on the Government to hold an independent inquiry into any Australian involvement in the conduct of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad from 2003, including knowledge of such involvement by the then Prime Minister or other ministers.

To move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) Sri Lanka's 'killing fields', which aired on Four Corners on Monday, 4 July 2011, is further shocking evidence supporting allegations of war crimes committed during the 2009 civil conflict in Sri Lanka, and

(ii) that British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, said in response to the program on 15 June 2011 that, 'the Sri Lankan Government needs that to be investigated, and the UN needs it to be investigated. We need to make sure that we get to the bottom of what happened, and that lessons are learned'; and

(b) urges the Australian Government to support an international call for an independent investigation into war crimes committed by both the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.