Australia’s tea lady in Washington, Kevin Rudd, has failed again. SMH.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made an eleventh-hour bid to avoid the worst of US President Donald Trump’s trade strikes by enlisting the advice of one of the most influential Australians in Trump’s orbit, golf star Greg Norman.
Albanese dined with Norman in Melbourne on Wednesday night after a day campaigning in Victoria and Tasmania.
The dinner discussion was viewed inside the government as a late and unlikely effort to improve Australia’s case with the Americans after Albanese failed to secure a phone call with the president over recent weeks.
Now, why would that be, I wonder?
Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, has scrubbed comments critical of incoming president Donald Trump from his online record, as the Albanese government rushes to avoid offending the nation’s most important security partner.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted that Rudd will remain as Australia’s top diplomat in Washington even though he previously excoriated Trump as “the most destructive president in history” and described him as a “traitor to the West”.
The Trump camp explicitly sent out a representative to politely tell Australia to replace “Dr” Rudd.
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”.
And now we have to call upon the Great White Shaft every five minutes to fill the Rudd hole.
Offer Rudd’s head for tariff exemptions.
