Labor and the Coalition both downplayed the prospect of Australian troops joining a “coalition of the willing” Ukraine peacekeeping mission proposed by the British prime minister, Keir Starmer.
Peter Dutton praised Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “modern-day hero” and said he would lobby Donald Trump to change his view on Ukraine if the Coalition won the coming federal election. Labor said it would continue sending other aid to Ukraine, with Anthony Albanese saying “we regard this as an issue of doing what is right but also what is in Australia’s national interests”.
