Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham says the Labor Party could “never” have been able to initiate the AUKUS deal. “Ultimately, the government managed to continue to stand by a policy that is integral to Australia’s defence and national security future and that’s as it should be,” he told Sky News Australia. “But what the divisions demonstrated first and foremost, was that Labor could have never initiated AUKUS. “Anybody who thinks that a Labor government could have done as the Liberal-National-lead government did and initiate the AUKUS pact, is dreaming because clearly the deep divisions would have seen them think ‘this is impossible for us to do and to keep the country – or our party … united.”
Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham says the Labor Party could “never” have been able to initiate the AUKUS deal.
“Ultimately, the government managed to continue to stand by a policy that is integral to Australia’s defence and national security future and that’s as it should be,” he told Sky News Australia. “But what the divisions demonstrated first and foremost, was that Labor could have never initiated AUKUS. “Anybody who thinks that a Labor government could have done as the Liberal-National-lead government did and initiate the AUKUS pact, is dreaming because clearly the deep divisions would have seen them think ‘this is impossible for us to do and to keep the country – or our party … united.”
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