The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) have today confirmed that Prime Minister Albanese had no involvement in the decision for Australia to not send a warship to the Red Sea, nor was a National Security Committee of Cabinet meeting called to resolve Australia\u2019s response to the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On multiple occasions PM&C deflected questions to the Department of Defence citing they had no oversight of the request made by the United States, stating \u201cIt was a decision by the Defence Minister<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With 12 per cent of the world\u2019s trade passing through the Red Sea this is an embarrassing revelation for Australia to have refused a request of our allies without it even passing the Prime Minister\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is both remarkable and negligent that the Albanese Government seemingly couldn\u2019t even be bothered to call a National Security Committee to discuss this request from the United States, especially given the woefully inadequate response provided by the Albanese Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PM&C officials confirmed that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office was advised of the request from the US, yet no action was taken or requested by Mr Albanese – his department heard nothing but crickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Albanese\u2019s missing in action response to matters of national security are a stark reminder of his inability or unwillingness to stand up Australia\u2019s national interests, including in other matters such as the HMAS Toowoomba incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) have today confirmed that Prime Minister Albanese had no involvement in the decision for Australia to not send a warship to the Red Sea, nor was a National Security Committee of Cabinet meeting called to resolve Australia\u2019s response to the request. On multiple occasions PM&C deflected questions … Continue reading “Prime Minister MIA on Red Sea response”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}