Despite appearances, Aussie foreign policy is beginning to make sense again

Friday, 2 November 2018

On the surface, Aussie foreign policy is in chaos with religious nutter Scott Morrison at war with everyone over Jeruslem, via the AFR:

The uneasy peace between Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison has been shattered with the former prime minister effectively branding his successor a liar.

Mr Turnbull has taken issue with Mr Morrison after the Prime Minister claimed Mr Turnbull’s two-day mission to Jakarta was to represent Australia at an oceans summit, not to discuss the future of the free trade agreement and other irritants in the relationship caused by Mr Morrison flagging a relocation of Australia’s Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.

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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.