Jennie George (Throsby, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

based on the untruth about the weapons of mass destruction? Where is the government’s clear mission statement for our troops in Iraq and its exit strategy? Remember: we were told the deployment would be for months and not years. And why is there no reference to the number of Iraqi civilians who have died in the war, now estimated on the Iraq Body Count website to be between 38,475 and 42,889 civilians?

Given yesterday was the third anniversary of the last news item on the Prime Minister’s website, why has the Prime Minister stopped updating the Australian community on our involvement? Is it the same patience and restraint urged by the Prime Minister about WMDs that has prevented him from informing Australians visiting his website of any news from Iraq since 20 June 2003?

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