The Importance of a Change in Tone in Australia's Foreign Policy

You're one of the biggest China hawks in Parliament. There was a school of thought that a change in tone might be possible, but without changes in policies on the Australian side, we're not really going to be able to improve the relationship. I think it's very clear over the last few years that China's attempts to economically coerce Australia has backfired. It's actually done enormous harm to China's standing in the world and have the opposite of the intended effect that they hoped it would. And what the change of government provided to them was a convenient off-ramp. They were able to say now that we've got a new Australian government and a different attitude, we can