Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Minister, I refer to the fact that 17 of the 38 members of the Iraqi cabinet have now withdrawn—all of the Sunnis and two big Shia factions—and government for practical purposes has ceased. Now that four million Iraqis have left the country, including most doctors, teachers, public servants and entrepreneurs, and that, according to the Financial Times, Iraq has reached advanced societal breakdown, with ethnic cleansing now the norm, will your government admit that the strategy of delivering democracy with violence has not worked?