Nothing of note went wrong when Australia’s newly minted PM went to Tokyo. Which is a relief, considering what we have come to expect in recent times. auspol
It may not reach the higher registry of praise, of course, and falls rather short of hurrah.
No one accused Albanese in Tokyo of lying about breaking a multibillion-dollar weapons contract, for instance. Whew.when asked last year whether he thought the Australian PM Scott Morrison had a passing acquaintance with truthfulness concerning the dead-in-the-water French submarine contract. Albanese did not need to be asked whether he had tried to slip a mate from a flashy church into a presidential dinner, either.Protocol officials still shudder at the refusal of even Donald Trump’s White House to have someone at its table like Scott Morrison’s then bosom buddy Brian Houston - lamentably late, now, of Hillsong Church, following un-pastorly indiscretion.
The current US President, Joe Biden, did not even forget in Tokyo the name of Australia’s newest prime minister, as he did last year when announcing the new AUKUS trilateral security partnership.
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