As we come to the end of this question time we get a question from Alex Hawke and…sigh.

This morning the Prime Minister snapped at a journalist saying he had given, “5,324 answers as to why he has failed to secure a meeting with the President of the US. Can the Prime Minister table these 5,324 answers and could the Prime Minister explain to the Australian public whether his decision to recognise the State of Palestine means he is more likely to get a meeting with President Trump or less likely to get a meeting with President Trump?

Why is the Coalition so desperate to get a meeting with Donald Trump? What do they think it would even achieve? What is with this obsession with kowtowing to the United States at all times? That Australia be in lockstep with the United States, even when it is wrong? Does anyone every question what is the point of that sort of diplomacy does for Australia and its people?