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The NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, has been on Radio National breakfast this morning.
On recent reports that climate ambitions were scrubbed from the recent UK trade deal, Kean (reminder: a Liberal minister) said:
Pressure is mounting on Australia from our trusted friends and allies... for too long politicians have complained about the cost... but now we’re facing costs of not taking action
NSW Environment and Energy Minister @Matt_KeanMP just told @RNBreakfast the state can "absolutely" meet the target of zero coal fired power by 2030, as demanded by the UN earlier this week
The foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, also took a swipe at China last night, saying Australia and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region have to be clear about red lines that must not be crossed.
During a discussion hosted by the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, Payne was asked a question about geopolitical rivalries in the region.
But we have to be clear that there are certain lines that it’s actually not acceptable to cross. Let’s start with cyber interference and disinformation, both of which are dangerous and deadly in a pandemic. Let’s just start there. Let’s start with territorial claims that the countries of Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] are grappling with every single day, knowing that their rights and their obligations are underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – a rule body that Australia accepts, and that every member of Asean accepts, and that every responsible nation in the Indo-Pacific accepts.
And in our view it is vital that we compete to preserve the international order that has underpinned those decades of stability and prosperity that I spoke about in the Indo-Pacific, but it’s not in our interests for competition to slip into confrontation or outright conflict. And that is something which Australia is very clear about.
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