Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government has been clear and consistent: for Australia to continue to be secure and prosperous, we need to work cooperatively and constructively with international partners. But it must be in our national interests, which means we must work with other countries and institutions but we must indeed advocate for substantive reform where it is needed. It's appropriate for a country of Australia's size, capability and standing in the region to make an ongoing contribution to the maintenance and evolution of a rules based international order. As COVID-19 has shown, multilateral institutions are most effective when they are driven by and responsive to the interests of sovereign states that form them.

Question agreed to.