Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called on Australia’s Prime Minister to come clean about whether he raised the Chinese Navy’s “aggressive behaviour” with President Xi during sideline discussions at APEC last week.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his government’s handling of a controversial ruling by the High Court that saw 84 dangerous detainees released from indefinite detention.
Defence analysts have labelled China’s actions toward Australian divers off the coast of Japan “coercive,” suggesting it was a deliberate act which they knew would cause physical harm.