We took one for the team on China: Dutton

"As we've seen with Optus and with Medibank and many other instances in recent months, as we'll see into the future, you need to narrow the risk on the internet and on those services, not increase it," he said. "Having services that were going to collect data of Australian citizens from our telecommunications system was unacceptable to us and… that upset China at the time. "Again, that's not a decision that Labor has had to make or to suffer the consequences of because they never made that decision when they were in government, and they didn't make the military acquisitions…