Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I accept Senator Di Natale's interjection, and put it on the record, that our involvement could make it worse. That is a possibility. But the Secretary-General of the United Nations does not agree with you. The United States does not agree with you. The United Kingdom does not. France does not. Italy does not, and the European Union does not—and the list goes on.

It begs the question: what would the Australian Greens do? They would say, 'Don't be involved at all. Don't provide the wherewithal for minority ethnic groupings and minority religious groupings to be able to protect themselves from the barbarity of ISIL. As a government, we will do all we can, in lock-step with the international community, to protect these minorities from what would otherwise be an absolute slaughter. (Time expired)