In American terms,
Lucy Turnbull, the wife of the Australian Prime Minister,
Malcolm Turnbull, is Australia's '
First Lady'. Not that we use that term here.
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I passed
Mrs Turnbull today in the
Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. She was walking casually through the busy centre crowded with Saturday shoppers with a bunch of lilies slung casually over her shoulder. There was not a security presence in sight. I can't imagine
Michelle Obama in a similar situation.
It reminded me that our State's former Premier,
Bob Carr, and his wife regularly slipped into my local cinema for a Sunday afternoon movie without any escorts or hoo-ha.
There are some things awry with Australia at the moment but in many ways we are still a very lucky country.
It so pleases me to hear this. For all that we complain about our country, that the PM's wife can go shopping alone without guards is a wonderful thing. You don't think Michelle might have slipped out at times and been anon?
ReplyDeleteShe might have done so Andrew but if so I suspect the Secret Service would have had a fit.
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