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The Labor backbencher Joel Fitzgibbon has accused Scott Morrison of overreacting to the Chinese foreign ministry officials tweet about Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, and said his response was part of a pattern of the prime minister dog-whistling to a domestic audience on China.
Fitzgibbon, who has long been one of the harshest critics within Labor of the Coalitions approach to China, stepped up his criticisms in an interview with ABC TV this afternoon.
Fitzgibbon contrasted Morrisons absence…

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