Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Faulkner for the supplementary question. I have now said twice—and I will say it a third time so that it is abundantly clear—that Australia is committed to staying in Iraq with our coalition partners until the Iraqi security forces no longer require our support. Any timetable for withdrawal of our troops will be conditional on those matters and certainly will not be calendar based.