OPINION: It is silly that a prime minister should have to justify his trip to the NATO summit. But that’s the upshot of complaining your way into office.
As Anthony Albanese’s plane departed Europe for home on Monday with a scheduled arrival time of Tuesday night, the travelling media was informed the prime minister would visit the NSW floods on Thursday.
Clutching an air sick bag on which he had written a series of talking points, the prime minister’s tone was notably defensive given he had just capped off a successful and important 10 days abroad. New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, also at the NATO summit and so often the benchmark the left used when criticising Scott Morrison, declined a similar invitation to visit Ukraine. She sent best wishes and support, and Volodymyr Zelensky still gave her a shout-out on Twitter.that a prime minister should have to justify his trip to the NATO summit in Spain, followed by a relationship-rebuilding mission to Paris, and then a trip to Ukraine to show solidarity against Russia’s aggression.
Nor the cavalcade of ministers who are also abroad at any given time, whether it’s Penny Wong on her essential Pacific blitz, Tanya Plibersek posting for selfies with Emmanuel Macron at an oceans’ summit in Portugal, or Richard Marles inexplicably posting pictures of himself on social media doing yoga in India.
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