Kevin Rudd must develop a mysterious illness

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China fanboi, James Curran, has wasted no time in trashing the national interest.

…opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham, urge Albanese to take the drastic step of recalling Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ambassador to the US. This assumes that, due to critical comments he made of Trump some years ago, Rudd will find Trump’s White House doors closed to him.

Behind much of this advice lies a similar insecurity that characterised Australian debate before Trump’s election in 2016.

Speaking exclusively to The Australian Financial Review, former Australian ambassador to Washington Dennis Richardson advises against “hitting the panic button” and dashing off to Washington. He adds, with colour, “indeed, if you don’t play it carefully, foreign governments can be a pain in the bum”.

…“Anyone who seeks to undermine the Australian ambassador obviously puts personal feelings and perceived political advantage ahead of the national interest and national security. In fact, they don’t know how to spell the words ‘national security’ and ‘national interest’.”

The last time Dennis Richardson disagreed with a globalist, Noah was building the arc.

Where’s the panic in pulling an openly egotistical and Trump-hostile ambassador from Washington?

We know Trump is narcissistic. We know Kevin07 is similar. We know personalities can matter to the Trump White House:

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Mr Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said last week that Dr Rudd’s past comments about the former president were “nasty” and “maybe we want to choose somebody else”.

Rudd can contract appendicitis or some other abdominal complaint and come home for a Hollywood operation before heading the Australian Embassy to the Holy See.

Such health conditions are common and hardly constitute panic.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.