Australian Foreign Minister Calls on Britain to Confront Its ‘Colonial Past’
UK counterpart responds saying he is proof of Britain’s success in dealing with the past
The United Kingdom must deal with its colonial past so that it can strengthen ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific region, says Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
As part of her visit to the UK, the centre-left Wong delivered a speech to the King’s College in London where she spoke of how Australia eventually developed its own identity separate from the one it had as a British colony.
“Today, as a modern, multicultural country—home to people of more than 300 ancestries and the oldest…
