Liberal senator Simon Birmingham says the Coalition is ‘keeping an open mind’ on whether Kevin Rudd – a vocal critic of US president-elect Donald Trump – should remain Australia’s ambassador to the US.
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‘Anthony Albanese said he was never going to appoint Kevin Rudd to this post … then he changed his mind,’ Birmingham says. ‘And he did so at a time that Donald Trump was a declared candidate for the presidency. The risks were ones that the government chose to take’
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