Australia has secured earlier supply of Pfizer vaccines amid Covid outbreak
Eight days before deal, former PM Kevin Rudd met Pfizer boss Albert Bourla
Mr Rudd wrote a letter to Scott Morrison to explain what happened in meeting
But the government says Mr Rudd s efforts made no difference to the outcome
Defence Minister Peter Dutton accused Mr Rudd of leaking the letter himself
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Readers with long memories might recall the fleeting controversy about the time that a then freshly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stopped, propped and saluted a deeply unpopular US President George W. Bush during a grand global summit.
It was a NATO meeting, April 2008, one of the early trips that earned Rudd the media moniker “Kevin 747” for his busy shuttle-style diplomacy. Bush, at the time, ranked as a factor causing 69 per cent of Australians “to have an unfavourable opinion of the United States”, according to the Lowy Institute Poll – a figure that even Donald Trump failed to top on becoming president in 2017.
Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant
Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated.
Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media]
The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, which have always fought to tie workers to the requirements of the corporate profit system and to the Australian ruling elite’s alignment with the dominant imperialist power of the time initially Britain and then, after World War II, the United States.
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