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Lidija Ivanovski

Albo dancing a diplomatic two-step to control tensions with China

Rather than adopt Scott Morrison’s He-Man approach, Anthony Albanese has taken Kevin Rudd’s advice and turned down the volume of Australia’s Sino strategy.

On the Sunday before this year’s federal election, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton faced each other for the fourth and final debate of the campaign.

By that point, the prime minister would have been confident he was cruising to victory, and Dutton would have realised he was in dire straits.

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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.

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