Penny Wong says coronavirus catastrophe fuelling 'a macho strain of nationalism'

Labor's Senate leader warns against anti-China rhetoric' during Covid-19 crisis and says climate change will be the next pandemic'

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The Covid-19 catastrophe has reinforced a macho strain of nationalism" while fuelling damaging levels of mistrust" between countries, and Australia cannot afford to stand by as the pandemic speeds up threats to the world order, Penny Wong argues.

Labor's Senate leader and foreign affairs spokeswoman lays out a case for Australia to become more self-reliant and active on the world stage in an essay for the forthcoming edition of the Australian Foreign Affairs journal.