The prime minister’s first year in office ends as it began – in a Quad leaders’ summit in Japan. This time in Hiroshima. The contrast with the planned but aborted event in Sydney could not have been more stark. This was a 47-minute meeting squeezed between G7 sessions and an official dinner.

But in those crowded minutes the four leaders signed off on a joint statement, a vision statement, a fact sheet and spoke to the press.