Prime Minister Scott Morrison has hit back at his predecessor’s claims Australia’s national foreign policy had ‘lost its way’.
Mr Keating told the National Press Club on Wednesday that Australia should be ashamed at how it failed to successfully establish its position in the region, and that the nation’s foreign policy had lost its way.“We are still trying to find our security from Asia rather than in Asia.”Former prime minister Paul Keating spoke via video at the National Press Club on Wednesday, where he said Australia shouldn’t be threatened by China.
“Now, the views that Paul Keating has expressed is in line with many I think in the Labor Party and that’s why I said … How we secure Australia’s interests in our part of the world, you have got to be strong.“That’s why we’ve invested more than our nation has invested in our defence at any time since the Second World War.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia wasn’t going to be ‘pushed around’ by Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage During his appearance, Mr Keating also took aim at the Australian Government’s handling of the international diplomatic spat caused by the scrapping of a French submarine deal.
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