Should Aus join Canada's middle power fightback? | Insiders On Background

Canada's Prime Minister has wrapped up his friendly three day visit to Australia.

Mark Carney was set on deepening economic and strategic ties between the "true north" and the "land down under", amid a "rupture" of the world order.

Melissa Clarke sat down with the Lowy Institute's Sam Roggeveen for this week's Insiders On Background.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Welcome Sam Roggeveen
1:51 Mark Carney's confronting message to Australia
2:49 Middle powers need to spread their risk and not overinvest with great powers
4:27 Australia deserves credit for deepening relationships with pacific and neighbours
5:12 Carney's subtext
5:35 "There's no obviously off ramp from AUKUS"
6:50 Grey area with AUKUS and US alliance
7:50 Problem with AUKUS partnership: sovereignty
8:50 Mark Carney's frank and plain speaking
12:31 New world order
13:30 "Carney is an extremely unlikely political hero."
15:22 Goodbye

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