View from The Hill: It's not in the 'national interest' for the backbench to shut up about China
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Trade minister Simon Birmingham on Sunday weighed into the debate over Andrew Hastie’s warning about China rise. Birmingham said colleagues in future should ask themselves two questions before speaking out on “sensitive foreign policy matters”.
These were: “Is the making of those comments in a public way necessary? And is it...