When we asked Labor MP and Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water Terri Butler whether she believed Parliament should be consulted before Australian troops are sent into armed conflict abroad, our inquiry was directed to the Shadow Minister for Defence Brendan O’Connor, despite the known environmental costs of war.
Mr O’Connor’s office told Michael West Media that, “[w]hilst ideally any decision to go war should be debated and determined by parliament it is critical that the executive government has the requisite authority when there is an urgent need to determine this grave matter.”
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong gave the same response as Brendan O’Connor, but added that an Albanese Labor government was committed to holding an inquiry into the issue.
