Senator NETTLE (9:44 AM) —I move:

   That the Senate—

(a)   notes that 126 members of the Iraqi Parliament have signed on to a statement that notes that:

(i)   the National Assembly is the legitimate representative of the Iraqi people and the guardian of its interests, and is the voice of the people, especially with regard to repeated demands for the departure of the occupation,

(ii)   these demands have earlier been made in more than one session but have blatantly been ignored from the Chair, and

(iii)   the Iraqi Government’s request to the United Nations Security Council to extend the presence of the occupation forces, was made without consultation with the people’s representative in the National Assembly who holds the right to make such fateful decisions;

(b)   notes that in line with their historic responsibility, these 126 members of the Iraqi Parliament reject legitimation of the occupation and they repeat their demand for the departure of the occupation forces, especially since their national forces have been able to break the back of terrorism and to notably establish its presence in the Iraqi street and to recover the state’s dignity and the citizen’s trust in the security forces leading to the noble objectives in an Iraq whose sovereignty is not compromised; and

(c)   calls on the Government to bring Australia’s troops home from Iraq.

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