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

I can only repeat that, in my half-dozen or so encounters with the foreign minister of South Korea, this was not raised. And how you, as an opposition spokesperson, could talk about 'sovereign risk' in Australia when no country on the face of the planet would offer a better investment climate, I do not know. To talk up the sovereign risk of your own country I think is a very dubious and shameful strategy. None of Australia's interlocutors would suggest for a moment there is sovereign risk about doing business in this country, yet you as an opposition say, 'Oh, sovereign risk in Australia'! The fact is, jobs in this country are to a large extent sustained by the flow of foreign investment and by the high reputation Australia— (Time expired)