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Seeker of Truth asks:

In view of Malcolm Turnbull's friendship with France's President Macron and his regular phone contacts with him, will Malcolm Turnbull be registering as a potential agent of foreign influence for France?

The Left pushed hard on Tony Abbott to force him to register, especially on his dealings with Boris Johnson, so what is their stance on Malcolm Turnbull?

Does Malcolm get a leave pass?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/20/tony-abbott-was-asked-to-register-as-agent-of-foreign-influence-after-migration-speech-in-hungary

In July 2021, Malcolm registered as an agent as to his keynote address at South Korea's Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity. Also in July 2021, he registered as an agent as to his keynote address at Taiwan's Yushan Forum.

These were both one off events. Yet there is no registration for his regular contact with Macron. It is obvious that political discussions take place.

Where is his transparency on this relationship?

https://transparency.ag.gov.au/Registrants/Details/0b09120d-8aea-eb11-814e-0050569d2348

Here's an excerpt of Turnbull's speech on behalf of The French People.

France is an Indo Pacific power. With two million citizens and 7,000 troops across the two oceans, drawing closer to France as a security partner made enormous sense both for us and the United States.

France is the world’s sixth (and the EU’s second) largest economy, a permanent member of the Security Council, a nuclear weapons state with its own nuclear technology for energy, naval propulsion and weapons. With Merkel’s retirement, Macron will be the most influential of the EU leaders. Always inclined to protectionism, France became a strong supporter of our bid for an FTA with the EU, invited Australia (for the first time) to the G7 and aligned its Indo Pacific strategy, and ultimately that of the EU, to ours.

Mr Morrison has not acted in good faith. He deliberately deceived France. He makes no defense of his conduct other than to say it was in Australia’s national interest. So, is that Mr Morrison’s ethical standard with which Australia is now tagged.: Australia will act honestly unless it is judged in our national interest to deceive?

It was as recently as 30 August that our Defence and Foreign Ministers met with their French counterparts and publicly re-emphasised the importance of the submarine programme. Two weeks later, on the day Mr Morrison dumped the President of France with a text message, the Department of Defence formally advised Naval Group that the project was on track and ready to enter into the next set of contracts.

The media has been gleefully briefed that Mr Morrison struck the deal with Boris Johnson and Joe Biden at the G20 in July shortly before going to Paris where the PM confirmed to President Macron his continuing commitment to the submarine deal.

France’s Foreign Minister has described Australia’s conduct as a stab in the back, a betrayal. Macron recalled his Ambassadors to Canberra and Washington. Dan Tehan can’t get a meeting with the French Trade Minister any more than he can with the Chinese Trade Minister.

France believes it has been deceived and humiliated, and she was. This betrayal of trust will dog our relations with Europe for years. The Australian Government has treated the French Republic with contempt. It won’t be forgotten. Every time we seek to persuade another nation to trust us, somebody will be saying “Remember what they did to Macron? If they can throw France under a bus, what would they do to us?”

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Here's part of The Australian's take on the podcast

Mr Abbott, speaking on the Institute of Public Affairs Australia’s Heartland podcast, said that although “obviously people shouldn't break the law”, he believed the protesters were within their rights to express their opposition to “unreasonable” health restrictions.

“You’ve got people there at the Shrine of Remembrance, with flags, with placards, with the best of my observation they were simply there to make a point,” he said.

“They weren’t being violent, they weren’t being vandalistic, they weren’t being destructive.

“Then you had the Victorian police being lined up like storm troopers, eventually charging them with rubber bullets and teargas.

“Now I don’t think you can say all the right was on one side there.”

Mr Abbott said he believed the group – which Labor and CFMEU boss John Setka branded as neo-Nazis and not genuine construction workers – were people who were “sick and tired” of arduous health orders.

“I saw a lot of people who were maybe a little misguided, maybe a little over the top, but I saw a lot of people who are sick and tired of restrictions, which frankly are now becoming absolutely unreasonable,” he said.

Here's an excerpt, courtesy Daily Mail.

The former Liberal prime minister told the National Press Club on Wednesday that he would “reserve his rights” to campaign against sitting government MPs or endorsed Coalition candidates, and he would keep his personal vote a secret.

Mr Turnbull in his NPC speech said Scott Morrison’s decision to cancel a $90 billion submarine deal with France was “blundering and deceitful” and accused Mr Morrison of hurting the nation’s relations with Europe.

The skewering speech came after months of other criticisms about the Prime Minister’s handling of climate change, the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, and the controversies around former minister Christian Porter.

Mr Turnbull refused to say on Wednesday that he would back the Liberal Party at the next election despite remaining a member of the party.

“It has been a long habit but it is also a secret ballot. That will be a matter between me and the ballot box,” he told the NPC on Wednesday.

“I haven‘t made a decision about (campaigning for independents). I remain a member of the Liberal Party. The independent I endorsed in the upper Hunter by-election was running against a National Party candidate and despite the indignation of Mr Barilaro, there is nothing in the Liberal Party rules that says you‘ve got to support the National Party.

“I will wait and see. I reserve my rights as they would say.”

In his speech on Wednesday, Mr Turnbull also revealed he has spoken to French president Emmanuel Macron since Australian-French relations soured over the cancellation of the Naval Group submarine deal in favour of UK and US nuclear submarines.

The former prime minister focused on Mr Morrison’s personal handling of the diplomatic controversy.

“Scott Morrison deliberately and elaborately set out to persuade the French that their deal was on foot and proceeding until he knew he had an alternative deal, where upon he dumped the French and his deceitful conduct was exposed,” Mr Turnbull told the NPC.

“I have spoken to Emmanuel Macron. He is a friend and I have stayed in touch with him since I left office.

“What Morrison has done, and he can blabber and people can spin it as much as they like, but this was a big double cross, deceitful conduct on any view, acting in bad faith.”