Senate debates

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Questions without Notice

Asian Century

2:38 pm

Photo of Bob CarrBob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition talks about the Anglosphere, an old boys club foreign policy, and scorns our Prime Minister for 'going off to New York to talk to Africans'. He wants to limit our engagement to the Anglosphere, sadly, when three-quarters of the G20 are not Anglosphere and two-thirds of the current UN Security Council are not Anglosphere. Mr President, if we were to take the advice of the Leader of the Opposition and limit our foreign policy to the Anglosphere, Australia— (Time expired)

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