Meeting Giorgia Meloni turned out to be quite a surprise
It’s perilously hard to make political predictions but as things stand the new Italian Prime Minister has the potential to become the European Union’s most significant leader.
I’ve often said that being the Australian foreign minister is the name dropper’s dream job. Having held the position for nearly 12 years I met many world leaders and a good number of celebrities. I didn’t meet them because of my personality. You know that. I didn’t meet them because they wanted to meet me! Let’s be honest. I met them because it was my job.
But meeting them and talking to them helped me to form a view of people most of us only know through the superficial and hyperbolic lens of the media.
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Alexander Downer was Australia's longest serving foreign minister, from 1996 to 2007, and most recently Australian High Commissioner to the UK.
