A former Obama adviser has recalled how his team watched Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech whenever they became frustrated with Tony Abbott.
Ben Rhodes, who was deputy national security advisor to former US president Barack Obama, has described how it was it was “no secret” Mr Abbott was far from his boss's “favourite leader”.
He spoke about the two leaders' relationship on a comedy and politics podcast, A Rational Fear, revealing Mr Obama’s discontent with Mr Abbott as he tried to achieve a global consensus on climate change.
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Mr Rhodes said members of the White House had regularly watched Julia Gillard’s famous "misogyny speech" when they were annoyed with the former Australian prime minister.
“I will tell you that whenever we were really annoyed with Tony Abbott, we would watch the video of that speech by Julia Gillard,” he told podcast hosts.
