September 26, 2026 — 10:50am

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New York: Anthony Albanese has never been consumed by foreign affairs.

He is not a student of geopolitics in the way some predecessors were. He does not appear particularly curious in the grand architecture of international relations.

But he does like making influential friends. He loves sitting down with other leaders, finding common ground or passions and building relationships that might be useful later.

In a world where Australia has little capacity to impose its will, that is not nothing. And it is the…

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