A former foreign affairs minister is calling for Australian warships to be sent to the South China Sea to protest China's island-building program.
"I think it is important that there be push back against some of the more indefensible aspects of Chinese policy, which are first of all to make large, ill-defined, historical territorial claims to, effectively, the whole area of the South China Sea," Gareth Evans, who served as Australia's foreign affairs minister in the late 1980s and early 1990s, told ABC radio.
Three Australian navy ships are already in the area, and after high level talks with the US last week Australia has agreed to increase naval co-operation in the area.
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