Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition will not be supporting this motion. The opposition does not support the call for yet another inquiry into Australia's involvement in the Iraq War. Labor's view on the Iraq War is well known. In 2003, Labor opposed the commitment of troops to the conflict in Iraq without the endorsement of the UN. It was the former Labor government that took the decision to withdraw our combat troops from Iraq in 2008. The circumstances surrounding the decision to commit troops to the Iraq War have been the subject of a number of parliamentary inquiries, particularly in the Senate. The specific issue of the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction has also been the subject of extensive government and parliamentary reviews, including the former Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD and the 2004 Flood inquiry into Australian intelligence agencies.