Published: August 10, 2019
Andrew Hastie should have first considered if his Nazi Germany analogy was ‘helpful to Australia’s national interests’, trade minister says
Andrew Hastie should have considered whether his comments on China were “helpful” or “necessary”, the trade minister, Simon Birmingham, has said, as the government deals with the political fallout of the Liberal MP’s inflammatory remarks.
Hastie, a conservative MP from Western Australia who chairs parliament’s joint committee on intelligence and security, penned a column last week for the Nine newspapers that compared China’s rise with that of Nazi Germany.
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