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‘I’d be a very busy boy’: O’Brien avoids judgement on Trump’s comments

Asked what he made of Donald Trump’s comments, telling European allies to “get your own oil”, Ted O’Brien says he wouldn’t comment.

I’ve deliberately avoided making a running commentary on the comments from the president, I’d be a very busy boy if I did otherwise.

I think though, if you look through the language and the tone of the President to the key issue here, we have the Strait of Hormuz still effectively blocked. It is in the globe’s interest, indeed, it is in Australia’s national interest for it to be opened.

The key question is, is it in our national interest? And my view is yes, it is. The second question is, what can we contribute in a material sense, that part of the equation we are yet to understand? And I think they’re the two questions that need to be answered … but I believe we should be open to making contribution.