Australia is the leading non-NATO contributor in support of Ukraine thanks to efforts from the previous Coalition government establishing a “strong base” of financial and military packages, says Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham.
Since then, there has been a “slower movement” of support from the Albanese government, according to Mr Birmingham.
“Indeed, the package announced today has been one that not only the Opposition but many other parties have called for, for quite some months,” he told Sky News Australia. “It was frankly embarrassing that Ukraine themselves had to resort to a public communications campaign around some of the things that they were urging the government to provide.
“Now we see this announcement today, and of course, it’s welcome, and it has complete bipartisan support, but we are concerned that it took too long to get to this point.”
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