The Labor veteran also says other countries are breathing “an audible sigh of relief” at having an Australian government “in lockstep” on climate.
“We’ll keep trying. Hopefully, there’ll be an opportunity in the future,” Mr Farrell told“I do think that by requesting the meeting, it obviously showed a willingness to enter into a dialogue.”The active attempt to re-engage Beijing and reheat the Chinese relationship looks, on the face of it, to be one of the few changes discernible in the handover of the trade and tourism portfolio from the Morrison government to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s administration.
“We’ve got to make decisions based on our national interests, and by and large, we have supported everything that the previous government did in the trade space.” It is early days – Mr Farrell has not even been in the job for a fortnight – and time will tell whether it is possible to reinforce relationships with the likes of the US and Japan without provoking China into another round of diplomatic hostilities.“I’m very confident in the Labor Party’s negotiating skills in this regard. I’m very confident that we can walk and chew gum at the same time,” he said.
“In the last 12 months, they’ve simply left the red grapes, particularly, on the vine. So it has had a dramatic impact, and I guess I’ve seen it first hand.”Tourism, which is the industry on the other side of his portfolio, has also had a torrid 12 months, ravaged by the pandemic-related closure of the border to international visitors.
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