Robert McClelland (Barton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In terms of the minister’s stated goal, earlier this week, of establishing peace and prosperity in Iraq, how does he rate his achievements when: hundreds of thousands of people are dead; over four million have been driven from their homes; the brutal sectarian militias have infiltrated the security forces; tens of thousands of Christian families are being persecuted and brutalised on a daily basis by all factions; oil production has been slashed; Iran has been emboldened; and international terrorism has been made worse? Minister, if this represents foreign policy success, what on earth represents failure?

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