Prime Minister Scott Morrison has taken aim at Labor's plan to tackle China's growing influence in the Pacific, as Labor demanded that he clarify the government's net zero emissions position:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused Labor of "playing politics with the Pacific" in the wake ofproperly maintaining relationships with Pacific nations"They are playing politics with the Pacific and the only ones who are benefiting from Labor's attacks on the government is the Chinese government," Mr Morrison told reporters on Tuesday.
The ABC would receive $8 million a year to deliver Australian content to Pacific nations and a $6.5 million Australia Pacific Defence School would be set up to train personnel from regional neighbours. He said the China-Solomon Islands security pact "concerned" him, but reiterated sovereign governments were free to make their own decisions.
"We need a comprehensive plan of engagement with the Pacific and we simply haven't had it," Mr Albanese, who is currently in isolation after contracting COVID-19, told Perth radio station 6PR on Tuesday.China was looking to increase its influence in the region and had been more forward-leaning in the past few years, Mr Albanese said.
"Our commitment to net zero by 2050 is a commitment of the Australian government that I made in Glasgow. It is the government's absolute policy. The Liberals and Nationals agreed to an unlegislated target of net-zero emissions by 2050, following tense negotiations ahead of the COP26 UN climate change conference in late 2021.
Mr Scott Morrison has spoken with embattled Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, checking on her welfare after she told SBS News that "death threats" had forced herMs Deves has come under fire for controversial comments she made about transgender athletes, including likening her lobbying to stop them from competing in women’s sport to standing up against the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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