With the prime minister out of the country this week, clear differences emerged between the acting PM and the foreign minister, who diverged somewhat on the Israel-Hamas conflict, writes Brett Worthington.
Fears Palestinans were being forgotten became public when cabinet minister Ed Husic and frontbencher Anne Aly last week spoke out against the “collective punishment” of Palestinians in Gaza.
It was a long-overdue intimate meeting between Albanese and the US President Joe Biden, whose trip to Australia was called off earlier this year when he had to stay home to hold debt ceiling negotiations with congress.
The B-52s had been booked to perform, but as the ABC’s Barbara Miller noted, there was to be no “bopping away to Love Shack and Rock Lobster”, with the President’s Marine Band called in at the last minute to provide entertainment amid fears of the optics given the situation in the Middle East.
There was no sight of Sarsaparilla-braised short ribs, sorghum-glazed young carrots or hazelnut and chocolate mousse cake back in Canberra, where senators were getting plenty of time sitting under the fluorescent lighting of Parliament House this week.
You’ll see some senators spending their meal breaks walking laps of the building to get in the steps being lost to the hearings; others have been known to disguise a brew much stronger than tea being poured into parliamentary mugs.
There are a few things you can always bank on: Labor’s Glenn Sterle repeatedly reminding people he used to be a truckie, or veteran turned politician Jacqui Lambie and the Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell clashing.
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Fears Palestinans were being forgotten became public when cabinet minister Ed Husic and frontbencher Anne Aly last week spoke out against the “collective punishment” of Palestinians in Gaza.
It was a long-overdue intimate meeting between Albanese and the US President Joe Biden, whose trip to Australia was called off earlier this year when he had to stay home to hold debt ceiling negotiations with congress.
The B-52s had been booked to perform, but as the ABC’s Barbara Miller noted, there was to be no “bopping away to Love Shack and Rock Lobster”, with the President’s Marine Band called in at the last minute to provide entertainment amid fears of the optics given the situation in the Middle East.
There was no sight of Sarsaparilla-braised short ribs, sorghum-glazed young carrots or hazelnut and chocolate mousse cake back in Canberra, where senators were getting plenty of time sitting under the fluorescent lighting of Parliament House this week.
You’ll see some senators spending their meal breaks walking laps of the building to get in the steps being lost to the hearings; others have been known to disguise a brew much stronger than tea being poured into parliamentary mugs.
There are a few things you can always bank on: Labor’s Glenn Sterle repeatedly reminding people he used to be a truckie, or veteran turned politician Jacqui Lambie and the Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell clashing.
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