Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Briefly, I would like to associate the opposition with the remarks of the foreign minister. The opposition too recognises that the actions of the North Korean government are deeply destabilising. Whilst the development of shorter range missiles is more advanced than their longer range missiles, the opposition does not underestimate at all the seriousness of the threat that was outlined by the foreign minister. We are supportive of the approach and foreign policy in terms of the Korean Peninsula and North Korea outlined by the government. Labor does not regard the challenges of the Korean Peninsula as someone else's problem to be dealt with somewhere else. This is indeed a challenge to Australian stability and security.

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