Albanese tucks trousers into socks and pedals into bicycle diplomacy | tonyowright
It wasn’t quite Tony Abbott and a European leader in full Lycra, nor Julie Bishop in compression tights in London, but Australia’s new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, wove a well-worn path as he set out for a spot of open-air diplomacy in Indonesia.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Joko Widodo cycle through Bogor Palace in Indonesia on Monday.Wearing bicycling helmets, the pair wobbled around the gardens of the presidential palace in Bogor, about an hour outside Jakarta, chatting beyond the reach of journalists’ microphones.Albanese in action.He said that “riding a bike, I think, is environmentally friendly and I think we have to start to convey a message on the importance of environmentally friendly vehicles”.
Bishop appeared perfectly comfortable as she loped along in her stylish compression tights. Johnson, however, wearing long shorts, or possibly short longs, his ample belly only barely contained within a T-shirt, was soon red-faced and gasping for mercy. He said the president had offered to send the bike to Australia “and you would see me driving around on what might be the only bamboo bike in Canberra”.
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