Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has been caught on camera at a Beijing lunch criticising the Liberal Party’s management of Australia’s relationship with China – including a stab at Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie.
The Premier’s team hired a local video company to provide Australian media with the vision of his
historic trade trip – which captured Mr McGowan claiming Mr Hastie “swallowed Cold War pills” at birth.
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