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27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

How DFAT (yet again) let us down

Foreign Minister Marise Payne’s robust initiative in leading the call for an independent enquiry into the origins of the coronavirus – and suggesting that putting the World Health Organisation in charge of that would be a case of poacher and game-keeper – will have caused much dismay in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Mark Higgie is The Spectator Australia’s Europe Correspondent

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