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Opposition Criticizes PM's Handling of Trump Relationship After Cancelled G7 Meeting

Opposition Criticizes PM's Handling of Trump Relationship After Cancelled G7 Meeting

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Jun 17, 2025
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Opposition Shadow Cabinet Secretary Andrew Wallace criticized Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's management of the Australia-U.S. relationship Tuesday, saying the cancelled meeting with President Donald Trump at the G7 summit demonstrates how the bilateral partnership "has been let go."

Wallace said Trump's abrupt departure from Canada, which resulted in the scrapped bilateral meeting, reflects deeper problems in the relationship that could harm Australian interests on key issues including AUKUS and trade tariffs.

"Of course, it is very disappointing, and it does go to some part to show just how the relationship between Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese has been let go, I think," Wallace told Sky News Newsday.

The former Speaker of the House of Representatives said Albanese should have prioritized face-to-face engagement with Trump much earlier in the U.S. president's term.

"The President's been in for seven months now and the Prime Minister hasn't been over to Washington to see him," Wallace said. "The Prime Minister should have invested more time and more effort into getting a face-to-face meeting with the President long before the G7 in Canada, in my view."

Wallace's comments came after Trump departed the G7 summit early, citing urgent Middle East developments, forcing the cancellation of what would have been the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Trump took office in January.

The opposition spokesman suggested past criticism of Trump by Albanese could be affecting the relationship between the two countries.

"The Prime Minister has made some fairly injudicious comments about President Trump in the past. And I hope that's not coming home to haunt him because, at the end of the day, Australians will suffer as a result because of the relationship," Wallace said.


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