This is the bottom of the barrel for the failed regime of PM Morrison and the warped media reporting it:
Scott Morrison has accused the federal opposition of advocating for China, following deputy leader Richard Marles’ assertion that Pacific nations are free to engage with Beijing however they choose.
Labor is on the defensive over Marles’ comments, made in 2019 and reported by The Australian, as it accuses the Coalition of alienating Pacific nations and pushing them towards China through lacklustre action on climate change.
The deputy leader insists he is stating the obvious and argues Australia needs to earn the right to be a partner of choice for neighbouring countries.
“We are in a strategic contest with China. We win in the Pacific and we win that by earning the right to be the natural partner of choice,” Marles told the Nine Network’s Today Show.
“Clearly, under this government, they have failed to do that. I mean, when we were in government, we were the natural partner of choice.”
The Coalition has been in government since 2013 and has let China swan into the Solomons unopposed. This has:
- Exposed its “tough on China” rhetoric as completely hollow.
- Rendered useless its own hapless security plan of long-range nuclear submarines.
- And risked Australia being surrounded by Chinese forces that will end our very democracy.
Who cares what Labor said or did in opposition. Nobody was even listening.
Instead of blame-shifting, Morrison should resign.
