Tuesday 24 May 2022 06:25 AM Sky News compares Anthony Albanese's Japan business trip to Scott Morrison's ... trends now
A Sky News commentator has seemingly compared Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's diplomatic trip to Japan to Scott Morrison slipping out of Australia during the worst bushfire season on record.
The jarring comparison was made by Sky News political commentator Chris Smith on Peta Credlin's show last week before Mr Albanese elected and sworn in as Australia's 31st Prime Minister on Monday.
Mr Smith described the idea of Mr Albanese taking now-Foreign Minister Penny Wong to meet the leaders of the Quad as a 'glimmer of Labor craziness in the first week' and questioned how the process would work.
'He's not on the planet,' host Chris Smith said. 'To have Anthony Albanese in the stage of transitioning from a government to another government... a glimmer of Labor craziness in the first week.
'I know he's an economic dunce - we've proven that over the past five weeks, but this is like going to Hawaii on steroids... Like seriously, the first week?'
Joe Biden has praised Anthony Albanese's energy after the new Prime Minister flew to Tokyo on his first day in the job
Mr Morrison's most famous debacle was sneaking out of the country to holiday with his family in Hawaii in the midst of the 2019-20 bushfires crisis
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Mr Smith only elaborated on his comparison by questioning how Mr Albanese would handle the factions - in an apparent reference to how his Cabinet would be selected - in such a situation.
Mr Albanese was sworn into government on Monday before jetting off to Tokyo for a planned Quad leaders' summit with leaders from the US, Japan and India.
The Labor leader is due to return from the whirlwind trip on Wednesday.
Mr Morrison famously slipped out of the country to holiday in Hawaii with his wife and daughters in the midst of the 2019-2020 bushfire crisis.
His office repeatedly denied he was overseas before it was finally confirmed he'd left the country while it was burning the week before Christmas. Social media pictures emerged of him posing for selfies with beer-swilling holidaymakers and relaxing with his wife Jenny at their Hawaiian hotel.
In an interview with 2GB's John Stanley, while still in Hawaii, Mr Morrison notoriously said: 'I don't hold a hose, mate' to justify the trip. The trip was not well received and has haunted Mr Morrison in the years since, impacting his recent campaign and
