The furore over Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, is a “self-licking icecream” created by some at Sky News, former defence chief and former ambassador to the United States, Dennis Richardson says.
Richardson told The Conversation on Wednesday that the whipping up of the issue was driven by a combination of personal and political motives: to have Rudd removed from his post and to get at the Albanese government.
He said the Australian government should do “precisely nothing” in response, except to express its confidence in the ambassador, who had been doing “an outstanding job”, working across the aisle in Washington.
