The new US ambassador made clear she can command a room without raising her voice, gently telling off a male reporter for interrupting a female journalist.
Having only just stepped off the plane at Sydney Airport, Caroline Kennedy had no intention of making any controversial statements on her first day in Australia.
When a male reporter from a commercial television network tried to ask her a question, Kennedy was taken aback.Kennedy may have been smiling, but she wasn’t joking. Kennedy first took the question from the female reporter who had been interrupted before returning to the chastened male journalist. Asked about being a member of a storied political dynasty, Kennedy joked: “You mean you didn’t all come out here for the last person?”
Kennedy noted she has a long affinity for Australia: she and husband Edwin came to Australia during their honeymoon 36 years ago. And her father was rescued by an Australian coast watcher and two Solomon Islanders while serving in the Pacific during World War II.“Personally, this means a great deal to me,” she said of her appointment.
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