For eight days Katharine Murphy covered the Australian prime minister’s entrance into the peculiar circuit of global summits,where his brand of Aussie audacity was confronted by a brutal international crisisDeparture from the Royal Australian Air Force base in Canberra. The media flies before the prime minister who catches up later in a faster plane. The uniformed chaps with the tall-gloss shoes greet everyone, this time at 3am, and with a cheery good morning. Because it happens to be 3am this greeting is accompanied with laughter. The “at you” kind,not the “with you” kind.
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Source: theguardian.com