Q: Back to Donald Trump, the latest result, of the strategic Coalition poll would have us believe that Peter Dutton will have the best leadership to handle Donald Trump, why do you think that is and you think you should be channelling your inner Mark Carney to bring to the game?

Albanese:

I am not a commentator, I will leave that to all of you. On Mark Carney I have had the opportunity to speak to the new prime minister of Canada, he is in an election as well and the election will be held before ours. That is a matter for the Canadian people.

Q; An increasing number of Australians believe that the election of Donald Trump is bad for Australia.

Albanese: There seems to be a theme at this press conference.

Q: You can’t get our most important security ally on the phone to talk about tariffs, should there be a consideration to shift our policy towards Washington?

Albanese:

No, we support our foreign policy. As I have set out on a number of occasions, now, what happens is that there is negotiations with the respective side between Australia and the United States. They have put positions to us, we have put positions to them.

Then, things are agreed, then what happens is that the leaders get the grand signature or they get to have that declaration. There is, at this point in time, a lot of cooperation and discussion, a lot of commonality going forward, but I have said in the document that was released by the United States overnight, just to name three, some of the issues raised as well, pharmaceuticals, bargaining code bio security, I will stand up for Australia’s national interests.