Скачать или смотреть Australia and Papua New Guinea have ‘formed an abiding friendship’: Peter Dutton

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has joined Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in welcoming PNG Prime Minister James Marape to Parliament House in Canberra.

“Two nations share a history which has brought you here today, and your presence here today carries with it the weight of that shared history,” Mr Dutton said.

“In reflecting on that shared history, we reignite our appreciation for Australia and Papua New Guinea’s deep connections, and how we formed an abiding friendship.

“There was, of course, our pre-historic beginnings when Australia and Papua New Guinea were a single continent.

“Even after melting ice sheets and rising seas separated us some 8,000 years ago, contact was maintained via trade between our two coastal Indigenous populations who island hopped across the Torres Strait.”