Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Kitching very much for the opportunity to refer, at some length, to the Prime Minister's speech to the Lowy Institute, because it is convenient, of course, to read selective quotes from a significant set of remarks, but I think it's important to take them in context. If you were to take them in context—which is not convenient for the opposition—the Prime Minister made a number of observations. For example, he observed:

We have entered a new era of strategic competition—a not unnatural result of shifting power dynamics, in our modern, more multi-polar world and globalised economy.