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This is so funny to me.
ETA: He hasn’t apologised to Vance, mind you. He’s apologised to the public for his language.
Meanwhile:
The federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, was asked to respond to Cook’s comments, and said he would have chosen “different words”. [X]
I appreciate that everyone has bent over backwards to avoid actually eliding the sentiment.
It’s Australia so if the headline said he called Vance a ’****’, readers would possibly jump to the wrong conclusion.