Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke says Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “negative rhetoric” about global institutions in order to gain “domestic political advantage” has left Australia in a weak position on the international stage.
Ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, Mr Morrison urged the World Trade Organisation to implement dispute settlement systems to address China’s increasing use of economic coercion.
Mr Burke says the prime minister’s latest remarks are at odds with his criticism of “negative globalism” and has called on the government to employ a "calm and consistent approach" to foreign affairs.
“We certainly need less politics and more strategy in how we deal with our foreign affairs,” he told Sky News.
“We do have a view that the prime minister really needs to stop focusing everything on the photo opportunities and trying to get a domestic political advantage and to have a calm and consistent approach.
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Shadow Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke says Victoria’s ongoing lockdown is the first “extended period of time” where people have been "left with nothing to live on” since there is no JobKeeper.
“Once you hit something that’s seven days or more, you’re talking about an entire cycle of your rent, an entire cycle of your grocery bills where you have zero income to pay for it,” he said.
Mr Burke told Sky News the federal government’s failure to establish purpose-built quarantine facilities was partly to blame for the outbreak and the prime minister’s refusal to take responsibility was “unacceptable”.
“Up until now the message from the federal government, in particular to sole traders and casual workers who’ve been left with nothing to live on for more than a week, the message has been that they’re on their own and the federal government will take no responsibility,” he said.
“If there’s a shift from that, then that’s a good thing, a
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