Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable senator surely has the intelligence and understanding to know that, within the Middle East at the moment, there are a number of evil regimes undertaking activities that I hope everybody in this place would abhor. As we speak, we are seeking to deal with Daesh, the death cult. Are there other evils being perpetrated in the Middle East, in North Africa? Yes, there are. Can we deal with all of them at once? Well, I do not think so at the moment. But what we are seeking to do is deal with this particular one in a manner which is in lockstep with countries of like mind with whom we have fought in the past to overcome evil, be it in the First and Second World Wars or more lately in the Middle East. (Time expired)