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Albanese’s trip to Europe no distraction from Asia-Pacific focus
Mindful of the chatter that he is already abroad too much, the prime minister will be at pains to extract the relevance of his European trip to Australia’s interests in Asia.
James CurranInternational editorIn the past half century, few Australian prime ministers, with the exception of Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating, have had so busy a start in foreign affairs.
As Anthony Albanese heads to Madrid for a NATO summit, to Paris to meet President Emmanuel Macron, and possibly to Kyiv, his travel since the election captures the central dynamic in Australia’s foreign policy tradition: the permanence of its geopolitical moorings in Asia and the ongoing pull of historical ties to Britain, Europe and North America.
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