Foreign Minister Marise Payne raised the idea of an international inquiry a week ago, calling for greater transparency on how the virus originated and how it was subsequently handled.
“We want more transparency within the communist party of China in the way they have dealt with this virus issue,” Dutton told Sky News on April 26.
“If not just to understand how we can defeat this threat into the future when you have got these wildlife wet markets where the flu may have originated from.”
He said there needs to be reassurance globally this is not going to happen again in 12 months or two years time.
“We need a level of reassurance that’s not there at the moment,” he said.
Communist China has described the independent review proposed by Australia as “political manoeuvring.”
