I would certainly encourage any colleague or indeed anybody making comments around sensitive foreign policy matters to pose a couple of questions, is the making of those comments in a public way necessary? Is it helpful to Australia's national interests?

Simon Birmingham

Simon John Birmingham (born 14 June 1974), an Australian politician, is a member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia as a member of the Liberal Party since 2007. Birmingham served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment from 18 September 2013 then Assistant Minister for Education and Training in the Abbott Ministry from December 2014, before being promoted to Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull Government from September 2015. Upon the installment of the Morrison Ministry in August 2018, he became the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.

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