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Senator Payne is expected to visit Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam on the trip.
Cambodia has just taken over the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), while both Malaysia and Indonesia have sharply criticised Australia's plan to build nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS technology pact with the United Kingdom and the United States.
The ABC has been told Indonesia's President Joko Widodo "repeatedly and forcefully" raised concerns about the nuclear submarines program when Prime Minister Scott Morrison met virtually with ASEAN leaders last week, reiterating Indonesia's concerns the program could fuel an arms race in South-East Asia.
Australian officials have dismissed that argument in private, pointing out that Australia's nuclear submarines will only be conventionally armed and contrasting the government's defence ambitions with China's massive military build-up.
China ramping up pressureLate last week Defence Minister Peter Dutton also suggested some South-East Asian nations were criticising the arrangement largely to placate Beijing, which has lashed the nuclear submarines proposal and accused Australia of trying to undermine the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined French President Emmanuel Macron in calling Scott Morrison a liar over the cancellation of a $90 billion submarine contract, saying the Prime Minister had a reputation for being dishonest.
In a fierce criticism of his former colleague, Mr Turnbull said Mr Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
Mr Macron branded Mr Morrison a liar on Monday by saying “I don’t think, I know” when a journalist asked him if he thought the Prime Minister had lied to him.
The political fallout from that remark continued on Tuesday when French government officials expressed their anger to Le Parisien at the leak to the Australian media of a private text from Mr Macron to Mr Morrison on around September 13.
Advisers to Mr Macron told the French newspaper the leak, which they blamed on Mr Morrison’s office, was a “pretty crude” tactic to respond to the President’s remarks.
Mr Turnbull, who is in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit, said he had no doubt the French leader had been deceived and said he had the same experience as prime minister from 2015 to 2018 when he worked with Mr Morrison.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/he-s-lied-to-me-turnbull-joins-macron-in-rebuking-pm-on-subs-deal-20211103-p595g2.html
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