At the time of the Aukus announcement 68 days ago the Labor party rushed out and couldn’t have been any stronger in [their] support, at least at that time for the AUKUS announcement, it has taken 63 days and we have seen Senator Wong set out with a speech which could have been written by Paul Keating, and Mr Speaker the reality is, Labor has always been weak on national security and border protection.
If you want to look at what they would do in government look at what they did in opposition.
[This leader of the opposition] was the architect, along with Kevin Rudd, of the unsuccessful vote policy that resulted in people dying and resulted in children going into detention.
When it comes to the defence of our country, I can assure this weak leader of the opposition, you don’t deter an adversarial and you don’t maintain peace in our region from a position of weakness.
That is what he is advocating. The Australian public know him very well. They know him to be weak on national security.
I noticed the acting Chinese ambassador has been attacking Australian values and Senator Wong doesn’t stand up for those values, instead, she folds in a fit of weakness.
This leader of opposition is leaving no Australian uncertain as to what their view is, he is weak when it comes to national security.