Their careers have followed similar trajectories, but Australia will approach meetings with China’s Wang Yi and the UK’s David Cameron very differently.
Australia and China’s relationship has stabilised but Foreign Minister Penny Wong made it clear during talks there are outstanding concerns about nickel, lobsters, and global security.
Jacinta Allan remains undefined to much of the electorate after her first 100 days as Victorian premier and could face a series of stumbling blocks in 2024.
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, seemed nothing like the imposing figure I’d imagined as his bodyguards wheeled him into a room in northern Gaza, in October, 2000.