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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

We are muddled into war.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

We are together with the British and Americans because one should fight terror. But we are not going to pay the price for it by endangering Israel and its citizens.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.