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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the tragic events of 13 February 2009, when Australian Defence Forces conducted an operation in Afghanistan in which six civilians were killed including, an adult man, a teenage girl, two boys aged 10 and 11 and two babies, aged 1 and 2, and

(ii)

the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation’s Dateline program of 7 March 2010 which revealed that it took 6 months for the investigation of this incident to be referred to the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service and that the Afghani individuals involved in the incident have not been interviewed; and

(b)

calls for an independent inquiry into this tragic episode.