Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—We concur with the other speakers and all senators in sending our condolences to the family, the friends, the colleagues and everybody associated with this soldier who tragically died in a foreign land. We Greens do not agree with the deployment of Australian troops to Afghanistan, but we totally and unreservedly support our service men and women, wherever they might be on the globe, in the service of this nation. We are thinking of those who are grieving now. We add our words of strength and condolence and thankfulness that such an Australian was in the service of this country. There are many more of them serving this country and they are true patriots.