Australia, UK Need to Defend Democracy and ‘Our Way of Life’: George Brandis

Australia's High Commissioner George Brandis speaks at a Fund Raising Dinner for the 2020 Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort at Mansion House in London, England on March 12, 2020. Eamonn M. McCormack - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Australia’s highest-ranking diplomat in the UK has issued a call to arms for the UK to stand firm on its shared values in the face of “a different kind of crisis.”

Speaking at the annual Gallipoli Memorial Lecture in London on June 25, High Commissioner George Brandis said that Australia and the UK need to “stand together as liberal democracies in defense of our institutions and our way of life.”