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Nationals MP Darren Chester and Labor MP Amanda Rishworth were on ABC 24 earlier, being asked whether Scott Morrison had shamed Australia on the global stage" at the Cop26 summit and worsened tensions with French president Emmanuel Macron. The following exchange took place.

Chester:

I know it's a spring racing carnival and Labor wants an each-way bet on everything, but the Labor party has supported the Aukus deal. The Labor party has spoken in positive terms ...

The Labor party has been very bipartisan on the Aukus deal but to say the prime minister has handled this anything but appallingly would be an understatement. There's no doubt the French were upset, but even President Biden admitted that perhaps this whole thing was handled clumsily. Rather than the [Australian] prime minister work on his diplomatic relationships there, what he's done is he's doubled down and allegedly his office has leaked private text messages. And then we've had government ministers criticising the press for asking questions. This really goes to the character of our prime minister.