Albanese's response to US request to increase defence spending was ‘petulant'
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan discusses the upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit.
'The United States, I think, does need some help from its friends right now, it's a divided country, it's got massive debt,' Mr Canavan told Sky News host Paul Murray.
'As a good friend and ally, we should be trying to help them as much as we can.
'I thought Anthony Albanese's juvenile and petulant response a couple of weeks ago to the request to lift our defence spending was not worthy of an Australian Prime Minister.'
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