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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I ask the minister: is he aware that each opinion poll shows an increasing number of Australians—most recently 72 per cent, in the Morgan poll—are opposed to having our troops remain in Afghanistan? I ask the minister: why is it that Australia is not in lockstep with its similar partners and has withdrawn no troops from Afghanistan?