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Just months after invading Iraq, the Australian government discussed how refugees could be returned to a stable homeland. But the bloodshed wouldn't peak for another few years.
Every year the National Archives releases cabinet documents from 20 years earlier, but it is what was not released for 2003, the year Australia committed troops to Iraq, that has sparked the most attention.
Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’
The Howard government drafted a statement declaring its support for an emissions trading scheme before abruptly changing course
History may show the US-led invasion of Iraq was based on false information, but former defence minister Robert...