Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs (House)) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with Dennis Richardson, who John Howard trusted and appointed as director general of ASIO and ambassador to the United States and who said today:

… the government is seeking to create the perception of a difference between it and the opposition on a critical national security issue, that is China—seeking to create the perception of a difference when none in practice exists.

That's not in the national interest.

That only serves the interests of one country, and that is China.

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