The decision by Australia to boycott the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem is yet another in a long and embarrassing line of snubs directed at Donald Trump by the leadership team of Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop. Going back to when Mr Trump was the Republican candidate for the Presidency, Prime Minister Turnbull went out of his way, on the occasion of jetting to New York to deliver his first speech to the United Nations, to avoid meeting Mr Trump whilst prancing about taking selfies with the virtual lame duck President Barack Obama.
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