Everybody’s doing it: Albanese, Starmer, and Trump. National addresses on serious matters in troubled times.

For his part Trump meandered through 21 minutes of distortions and outright untruths. There was little we hadn’t heard before, although I did startle when he said Straits of Hormuz would open ‘naturally’ after the war!

The UK Prime Minister emphasised that the Middle East conflict was ‘not our war’, that it was now damaging the UK and, as a result, closer ties with the EU would be actively pursued.

Albanese was scheduled at 7pm, right on prime time, across all channels. National addresses are historic, designed to bring the nation together, in moments of acute crisis. Think John Curtin announcing Australia was at war with Japan, Paul Keating on native title after the Mabo Decision, Kevin Rudd on........

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