Anthony Albanese is then asked to comment on Trump’s trade strategy and says:

We live in an era of strategic competition. The United States elected President Trump on a platform. We respect democratic processes. What we will continue to do is engage constructively not just with the US but importantly as well engage in our region.

One of the things we’ve done under this Foreign Minister and under our trade Minister Don Farrell, two great South Australians, South Australia does punch above its weight in this show, that’s the truth – we have improved relations not just the obvious of restoring trade with our major trading partner in China, we even got the pandas back here in Adelaide, we have the pandas back in Adelaide.

…I sat down with the wine industry in Australia because they had a number of good years, they were pretty keen on getting wind back into China now it’s going back in premium wines going into higher levels than they were beforehand.

We have restored our relationship with the Pacific, our Pacific relationship is important. Our COP bid is important for battle to our relationship with Indonesia had never been stronger and a relationship with India, India grew to be our fourth major export destination just in recent times. They are our fifth-largest trading partner. We can build on the relationship even more.

The Adelaide Zoo pandas would like to be excused from this narrative (AAP)