What is happening in Iraq is a war of aggression on the part of two countries. I know the Minister of State has much goodwill towards East Timor, but I was taken aback by his reference to it because just two weeks ago in The Economist there was a startlingly blunt assessment of the grab Australia has made for East Timor's natural resources. There is something sickeningly ironic about Australia involving itself in a war to liberate the people of Iraq, while it is also involved in the use of what is essentially brute force to impoverish the people of East Timor. It has withdrawn from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and has withdrawn its acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in order to justify its illegal grabbing of the natural resources of East Timor, which, according to all international conventions, should be the property of the people of that country. I have no patience with that sort of crusading spirit, which lines up with the USA in Iraq halfway around the world while bullying its nearest neighbour. I do not believe we can accept the ethics, values or morality of a Government that behaves in this way.