It’s perhaps the least expected outcome of the Albanese summit with Trump. After all the hysteria, harmony.

Trump praised the Australian people: “Love them.” The Australian alliance: “There’s never been anybody better.” And the Australian leader: “A great prime minister.”

Kevin Rudd, in a duo with Trump, provided comic relief. “Which misses the point – that this was an entirely successful meeting and credit goes to the ambassador [Rudd] and the US government,” as Charles Edel, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says.

The Coalition, struggling to find fault with Albanese, renewed its ritual calls for Rudd to be replaced. The Coalition can’t see past its own tribal fetishes.

Have they breathed a word of criticism against Trump for failing to appoint an a

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