Despite repeated assertions from Solomon Islands that Australia remains its security partner of choice, Senator Wong said the pact with China has demonstrated Canberra is no longer the go-to for Honiara.
"It also doesn't recognise the strength and the engagement that Australia has made through the Pacific step up," Senator Payne told the ABC.Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne.The foreign minister expressed her deep disappointment in the signing of the security agreement when it was made public by the Chinese on Tuesday night.
"This has not been agreed in an open and transparent way - not being consulted, for example, across the region," she said.
And NOT so long ago, the ALP wanted to get into bed with China/CCP.....
So much for the bipartisanship on China Labor promised a couple Of weeks ago. What would Penny have done differently ?
Note to all parents of young children, learn Mandarin ASAP. Great lesson for Putin, use stealth not weapons.
Wong should criticise Biden, US and China compete for world dominance, Australia is only trying to protect its soverignty and freedoms from authoritian regimes ?
Bunk, China ruthlessly corrupts politicians of countries to advance it's national interests, Philippines best example, politicians sell out their countries and loose control of their natural resources and wealth ? Noting to do with an Australian PM.
Sorry Madame wrong , your party is the Biggest supporter of Chinese infiltration in Australia 🇦🇺
Would Penny blackmail or bribe the corrupt Solomon Island government ? China pays better? Unstoppable. Will ALP nationalise Darwin port? Will ALP stand up to China or wimp out? Asked and answered.
What a idiotic comment from the local Australian mouthpiece for the US Democratic Party. A counter balance to US hegemony in the Asia Pacific Region can ONLY restrain US aggression and regional security.
noken wari, aloman whosat emi stap lon Solomon, atin alosem bai yu lukim planti mun bai emi go antap lon skai nau na emi les tumas ia lon mekim dripella giaman ma pait wantaim yumi, na algeta man na meri na pikinini, China savi kisim kaikai tasol, noken mekim war wantim yumi..
Solomon Islands is like 2000km away, wake me up when Papua New Guinea is signing the same security deal.
With ALP Australia will become Chinese Province! ALP IS A MOB! LOOK AT DAN ANDREWS AND HIS DEALINGS WITH CHINA!
It's the worst because China also leases our Port. Building its own Islands. There is a plan here. It isn't random acts of kindness.
Since you can hardly call the Labor Parties other than US whelps who yap away suppressing the Workers for yankee $'s. Penny bad,doesn't know Wong from right. Opportunist like all Labor Charlatans!
why didn't Penny and labour say anything 12 months ago 🤔 the Solomon Island riots was because the government was allowing China into the islands.. labour and liberals both asleep
It’s good. China is showing its true face. No longer can claim they are peace maker
Well solomen island is sovereign nation much like Ukraine , they can do whatever they want for their country. What is the problem then ?
Serial liar Morrison had the audacity to say they were well aware of the Solomon’s and China agreements ! 😂wouldn’t think so and never told the US either 😂
Australia had plenty of opportunity to assist the Solomon's. There's actually no credible negative about this unless your narrative is a US -led-anti China one.
It really is.. on a long list of NeverTrustLNP failures.. auspol AlboForPM ICACwithTeeth
I thought sending desperate asylum seekers to rot in detention facilities in other Pacific nations is actually worse?
Can someone ask the Solomon Islands Prime Minister if ScottMorrisonMP is lying about how we got to this point ?
How obvious is it that the ALPs allegiances lie with the Chinese Communist Party?
I hate Penny Wong as politician. But when she’s right, she’s right. LNP dropped the ball big time here. And I fully blame Scomo’s poor leadership. ScomoMustGo even if that means a one term Labour Gov. Anything to get rid of ScottMorrisonMP and his cronies from the LNP
Is this all Labor has? Australia cannot and will not interfere with another country's governance.
Labor should push this in Queensland seats. China could be a stones throw away from them.
We love a nationalist hawk girlboss. Chase that ASPI endorsement!
Perry Wong is jest a meenie. She bullie kimberlee. Groe up Perry Wong
Easy fix, when The Solomons wants aid and police to control island racial issues tell them to call China.
Give it a break . We allowed them Darwin port
LNPMassiveFail will use this as political gain ..only we can keep Australians Safe ..
What would Labor have done differently? Just give the political elite over there money, and the next country would just ask the same!
Australia should have been the one signing a security pact with the Solomons, not China! That they didn't is the biggest failure in our nation's foreign policy history!!
So if labor won the election, how are they going to rectify the problem?
Boris5Ross Wonder what corruption is involved in these negotiations. Either way, an ICAC would've been handy... ausvotes
Shame but I have to agree with Wenny Pong for the first time ever ! Scomo & Payne totally missed the boat, a naval base & a missile launching pad will be the first thing China installs in the Solomon's, then when the Solomon's cannot repay their loan from China a huge Army base!
The Solomon Islands are a free and independent Sovereign state. Mind your own business!
Scott Morrison has been too busy crafting $6B in rorts, covering up his rotten ministers, kotowing to Minerals Council, and has taken his eyes off the ball. The gate is hut on this. The question is. Which other pacific nation has china progressed security deals with PNG?
Looks perfectly fine to me. All that new infrastructure will be a great benefit. Just stop with the 'yellow peril' rhetoric.
'This has not been agreed in an open and transparent way - not being consulted, for example, across the region,' [Marise Payne] said. From the FM of the Party of Ultimate Secrecy and Obfuscation.
When since did Australia govern Solomon Islands? Can recall Solomon Islands requesting help. NZ/AUS declined. US declined and China stepped up.
Labor must break with bipartisan support of punitive offshore prisons that treat our Pacific neighbours like colonial vassals. Labor must reinstate collegiate foreign aid in our region. Plus be a good neighbour to Indonesia -stop offshoring refugees to struggling friends
Military talk is sick
Make China change its mind
What a total farce. LNP and ALP are both wedded to the military industrial complex. Maybe TNL or Independents can stop this insanity.
Solomon Islands is an independent democratic country. What right do we have to tell them what to do. Seems a bit racist to me.
They should sack the foreign affairs minister and minister for defence AlboMP
LNP r so bad evn neighbours R looking 4 new friends. Time 4 people to dump LNP, reclaim the People’s’ House, rid it of Scomo & Co taking license to piss on everything good in our democracy. It’s the only way 2 regain confidence/trust of our neighbours & other allies. AlboForPM
Well what did president Kennedy do I think they were going to attack Cuba AlboMP
'Woop, woop, oppa Wong's Honiara style...' 🤡 ...but AUSTRALIA supplied iron, coal, wool + wheat to imperial JAPAN in the 1930's as it invaded CHINA... the real policy blunder today is waiting for Japan to make Australia the next MANCHUKUO to serve its own anti-China agenda...
Inward looking, regressive policies that have lost sight of Australia's, and our near neighbours interests... LNP planned, compliant, or just incompetence.
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