![]() "I trust other freedom-loving countries like Australia will also make a stance in solidarity," the Tasmanian senator told ABC radio on Tuesday. ![]() Liberal senator Eric Abetz, who also chairs the upper house foreign affairs, defence and trade legislation committee, has called for Australian officials not to attend the Games. Labor has called for a bipartisan approach to a boycott, should one be agreed to. Employment Minister Stuart Robert told reporters in Sydney a diplomatic boycott was "under active consideration" by the government. US President Joe Biden announced America won't send any government officials to next year's Games, citing the Chinese government's ongoing genocide against minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses. It comes as federal MPs urged Australia to follow the United States' lead and join a diplomatic boycott of the Games, due to be held next February. The federal government is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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