![]() ![]() The PM and the opposition leader give a speech and poke fun at themselves and often other politicians. “Well it is a great tradition, it’s a big charity fundraiser … and it is a good-humoured sort of roast really. Speaking in a 3AW radio interview shortly after the speech was leaked, Turnbull said the speech was light-hearted and affectionate. It was the most beautiful putting-me-at-ease ever.” Impersonating Trump at the press dinner, Turnbull joked: “It was beautiful. In May the two men met for an apparently convivial meeting at a dinner on the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier in New York to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. ![]() The US president reportedly told Turnbull he’d spoken with four other world leaders – including the Russian president, Vladimir Putin – and said “this was the worst call by far”. A furious president ended a call early, angry over a deal struck by the Obama administration for America to resettle refugees from Australia’s offshore detention islands. Turnbull and Trump had a famously difficult phone call after the president entered the White House. He played leaked audio, and a small snippet of video uploaded on social media, in a news piece on Thursday. However, the most senior press gallery journalist, Channel Nine’s Laurie Oakes, routinely refuses to attend the ball and has consistently said he is not bound by the off-the-record convention. For a decade, the speeches made at the dinner have been widely regarded as being off-the-record. Speeches at the press gallery Midwinter Ball are intended to be light-hearted. We are winning so much, we are winning, we are winning like we have never won before. In his speech to the Canberra press gallery’s Midwinter Ball, the Australian equivalent of the White House correspondents’ dinner, Turnbull says: “The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls.
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