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

In the broad, one of the things that COVID-19 has shown us is the need for diversification of supply chains and to make sure Australia stands on its own two feet. That's why we have an advanced manufacturing policy led by Karen Andrews, the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. That's why we have been working across multiple bilateral relationships and in multilateral contexts on supply chain diversity to make sure that we never find ourselves in a position where we are strongly reliant on a very narrow cohort of suppliers. COVID-19 has brought that to the fore in about 90 per cent of all my international engagements in the last year.