I would observe this with relief.
In a short statement on X, former prime minister Kevin Rudd thanked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong for their kind words.
“It has been an honour to serve as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States over the last three years,” he wrote.
“I also thank the Trustees of Asia Society for offering me the position of global President & CEO, as well as President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and Chair of the Center for China Analysis.
It will be amusing to watch Kevin07 return to his “village idiot” rhetoric.
However, I now dread who Albo will appoint to replace Rudd.
Albo has now banned the internet for youth (thankfully ineffectually), has banned all mention of China in his government, is banning anti-China discussion and protest at large as we speak, has reloaded the China trade cannon, done nothing to rally a regional response to coercive Chinese naval incursions, and has refused to lift defence spending to anywhere near levels we might call a deterrent.
Who can he now appoint to Washington to finish off the job of rendering Australia’s a liberal democracy utterly helpless?
Top of the list is probably Xi Jinping himself.
