Pat Conroy has defended Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s overseas visits and hit out at the “cheap sniping” from the Coalition who he argued “dropped the ball” in the Pacific region.
Since winning government on May 21, Mr Albanese has jetted overseas for a number of summits and meetings with foreign leaders.
More recently he attended the NATO summit in Spain, which included a trip to Paris and then Ukraine to tour the war-torn nation and meet President Volodymyr Zelensky. "What we're seeing from Mr Albanese is very much a focus on everything international and we're starting to see serious drift when it comes to incredibly important domestic issues, like energy, like skills shortages, like these floods we're now confronting on the eastern seaboard," he said last Monday.
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