Penny Wong has confirmed she has fast-tracked the removal of CCP-linked cameras from government buildings as she did the rounds on Adelaide radio programs on Friday, where she also declared Australia needs to keep its 'relationship growing' with Beijing.
Shadow cyber security minister James Paterson led calls to eliminate the surveillance technology after he exposed they were manufactured by companies partially owned by the Chinese Communist Party."It's unfortunate that the previous government, despite doing a review of this in 2018, really didn't do anything about it," she said.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she was engaging in conversations with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi . Picture: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade via NCA NewsWire The Foreign Minister said it was a wise decision to keep the “relationship growing” while managing certain differences.
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