Mark McGowan has accidentally reignited a feud with Andrew Hastie after being caught mocking the federal shadow defence minister in an embarrassing blunder during a trade mission to China.
Footage from the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce event in Beijing on day one of Mr McGowan’s trip was disseminated by the Premier’s office on Tuesday.
“So, I like Mathias Cormann, he had the same view as me, but he had no sway… on this issue. He had a lot of sway, but on this issue, he was the odd one out,” he can be heard telling Barber in the footage.“He swallowed some sort of Cold War pills back… when he was born, and he couldn’t get his mindset out of that.”
“Mark McGowan is out of his intellectual depth. The truth is that he’s a prison guard looking for work now that the pandemic has finished. I’m not surprised he’s running down Australian MPs in China,” Mr Hastie said in a statement. The latest war of words reignites a clash dating back to 2019 after Mr McGowan refused to criticise China’s abuses against Uighur minorities in Xinjiang.
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