Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I don't believe there's any reference or implication in the Prime Minister's remarks that indicate signing up to international agreements involuntarily. What the Prime Minister does say is that globalism needs to facilitate. It needs to align. It needs to engage. It needs to do that, rather than direct and centralise, because an approach of that nature can corrode support for joint international action. I think it's fair to say that in 2019 we are at peak commentary from those opposite and from multiple sources around the world. We are at a point or an inflection in time where peak commentary is the way of the world. Trying to navigate a clear path through that in the national interest is what you should expect your Prime Minister and foreign minister to do, and that is what we are doing.