Foreign minister says foreign and defence policies are both essential for making the country stronger and more influential
The foreign affairs minister will tell the National Press Club that the government wants to “avert war and maintain peace”. She will say Australia and its partners must have strong defence capabilities to “change the calculus for any potential aggressor”.
Wong will say foreign and defence policies are both “essential and interdependent parts of how we make Australia stronger and more influential in the world”. Keating had ridiculed Wong for “running around the Pacific islands with a lei around [her] neck handing out money”. He had argued that “foreign policy is what you do with the great powers, what you do with China, what you do with the United States”.
“They love a binary. And the appeal of a binary is obvious: simple, clear choices; black and white,” the minister will say.
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