Australia's Opposition leader says he will travel to Quad if wins election

18/5/2022 13:40

        Australia's Opposition Labor leader Anthony Albanese said if he wins Saturday's general election he will travel to Tokyo for a meeting of the Quad group of the United States, Japan and India, scheduled just three days later.
        
        Centre-left Labor's lead over the Prime Minster Scott Morrison's Liberal-National government has shrunk to 51-49% on a two-party preferred basis from 54-46% two weeks ago, a poll for the Sydney Morning Herald showed, while a Guardian poll indicated it had dipped a point to 48%.
        
        Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra in the final days of the campaign, Albanese said Australia's alliance with the United States, regional relationships and multilateral groups like the Quad would be the foreign policy pillars of a Labor government.
        
        There would be no change in Australia's China policy, he said, but Labor held a "common view" with the Biden Administration on climate change and would do more on climate to improve its standing in the region, particularly the Pacific.