Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—This morning I returned from the memorial service for Shinzo Abe. During that very moving ceremony yesterday I was accompanied by former prime ministers John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull. It says a lot about the importance of the relationship between Australia and Japan that we had the current Prime Minister and three former prime ministers there to pay our respects.

We were able to pay our respects to Mrs Akie Abe as well. She obviously has suffered a great personal loss, but this is a great loss for the people of Japan. I know that when we travelled there it enjoyed bipartisan support in this parliament.

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