ScoMo returns as Rudd’s Trump card
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The Saturday Paper has a classic story:
Former prime minister Scott Morrison is positioning himself to serve the Albanese government as an informal envoy to Donald Trump if the American wins the White House in November.
With Australia’s current ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, spearheading Canberra’s meticulous planning for a possible second Trump administration, Morrison has emerged as a useful line of communication to the notoriously mercurial former president and his inner circle.
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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.
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