Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. I refer to comments by the Minister for Foreign Affairs about the lease of the Port of Darwin to Landbridge, a Chinese company with reported links to the People's Liberation Army. The Foreign Minister has said that she and you discussed the issue with her US counterpart at the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations in Boston last month. Can the minister confirm that she raised the issue with the US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, on 13 October?