“We will see what he will deliver,” Macron said at the G20 summit in Rome when pressed about whether he could ever trust Morrison again. “Do you think he lied to you?” a reporter asked directly. Morrison denied lying, insisting at a separate press meeting that he had openly told Macron …
Read More »Australia’s Morrison contradicts Biden, says US knew Canberra didn’t warn France about ditching submarine deal in favor of AUKUS
France was left stunned and even said it was stabbed in the back after the surprise announcement of the AUKUS deal by the leaders of the US, UK, and Australia in mid-September. The reaction was so harsh because the new plan to arm Canberra with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines …
Read More »Aussie PM Morrison labels social media ‘coward’s palace’ as he mulls further crackdown on IT giants
“Social media has become a coward’s palace, where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s lives and say the most foul and offensive things to people, and do so with impunity,” Morrison said on Thursday. Online trolls and all those who disseminate toxic content …
Read More »‘Australia’s interests come first’: PM Morrison says he ‘doesn’t regret’ canceling submarines deal with France
Proceeding with the 2016 submarine deal with France would have been “negligent” and harmful to Australia’s strategic interests, Scott Morrison said on Sunday. Speaking to the media in Sydney, he said he has no regrets over the decision that triggered a multinational diplomatic crisis and is believed to have put …
Read More »Australia made ‘very clear’ to France submarine deal could be scrapped, PM Morrison says, after Paris brands it ‘stab in the back’
Speaking to radio 5aa, Morrison affirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron was made well aware that Canberra was considering other options that would serve Australia’s “national interest.” The Australian prime minister claimed he made it “very clear” in late June while dining with his French counterpart that there were “significant …
Read More »Aussies snicker after PM Morrison’s first one-to-one with Biden turns into three-way meeting with UK’s Johnson
Morrison arrived as an invited guest at the G7 summit, which is being hosted by Britain at the seaside resort town of Carbis Bay. On Saturday, he was supposed to have his first bilateral meeting with Joe Biden since the latter’s election as US president. To the surprise of the …
Read More »Australian PM Morrison calls on EU to release 3.1mn vaccine doses after Brussels denies blocking shipments
“3.1 million of the contracted vaccines that we had been relying upon in early January when we’d set out a series of targets did not turn up in Australia,” Morrison told reporters early on Wednesday, saying the missing doses, developed by AstraZeneca, “obviously had a very significant impact on the …
Read More »Thousands protest violence against women in Australia as PM Morrison government rocked by rape allegations (VIDEOS)
Hundreds of demonstrators flocked to the Parliament House, which also houses the Australian government, including the Prime Minister Scott Morrison office, on Monday, as part of #MarchForJustice campaign against sexual abuse of women. Attendees carried signs reading “Enough,”“It’s time for men to change”, “Rape Place,” as they stood in the …
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