Albo dills do love hypocrisy:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused the opposition of politicising diplomacy after he was asked by Paul Fletcher whether he would reassess Kevin Rudd’s role as ambassador to the US considering he called Donald Trump a “destructive president” in 2020.
Albanese said the Liberal MP’s comment was “a cheap-shot question” and the first example he had witnessed of a minister attempting to politicise one of Australia’s representatives overseas in his 28-year career in the House of Representatives.
“I’ve never seen it before,” Albanese said.
Jeez. What was politicising diplomacy if not the appointment of Kevin Rudd—twice Labor PM and Sinophile—to Washington?
Rudd shouldn’t even be there. Notwithstanding the Joe Hockey appointment before him, which was equally dubious.
If it takes Donald Trump to point this out then so what?
Nobody in Australia is going to care. Not least because the nation already booted him out of power twice.
Like Trump, Rudd is great at making himself the centre of attention, which is not in the national interest in our US ambassador at any time.
Pull him.
