The controversy over the Chinese live-firing drills in the Tasman Sea has come at an uncomfortable time for Anthony Albanese.
It is not the first time that the prime minister has been less than precise on the details. It’s a flaw the Coalition under Peter Dutton enthusiastically exploits. Robert Duong
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s a former transport minister, Anthony Albanese is usually a savant when it comes to matters aviation. But as airlines scrambled last Friday to reroute flights across the Tasman when Chinese warships began a live-fire drill, it has been Albanese who has copped political flak, as his account of what happened was undermined by revelations uncovered through Senate estimates.
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