It was only nine months ago, but it seems a world away. On 4 August, 2019, on a mild winter’s Sunday afternoon, helicopters hovered over the Opera House and the Botanic Gardens as a cavalcade of shiny black limousines and police motorbikes swept US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Macquarie Street to deliver a no holds barred speech in the magnificent Mitchell Room of the State Library.
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