The latest US ambassador to Australia has made headlines in her first day on the job after she known as out a male reporter for talking over a lady within the press pack.
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former US President John F Kennedy, opened her tenure in Australia with a speech specializing in Pacific relationships and the renewed US concentrate on the area.
However it was in the course of the question-and-answer session afterwards that issues bought a bit of awkward.
As reporters jostled to get their questions in, Kennedy, 64, took umbrage at Channel 10's Hugh Riminton.
"Did you simply discuss over the girl?" she stated.
"Effectively, she began first."
Riminton later joked it was like being "ticked off by the headmistress", the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The remainder of Kennedy's press convention was way more conventional, as she spoke of the US coming again to the area.
"For me personally, it has nice significance, since my father served within the Pacific and was rescued by two Solomon Islanders and an Australian coast watcher," she stated.
"And that is the crucial space within the area and I believe the US must do extra. We're placing our embassies again in. And the Peace Corps is coming and USAID is coming again.
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"And, fortuitously, we're coming again. We have not been there for some time however I believe that that's all tremendously constructive. And I believe the US and Australia working collectively will make an enormous, huge influence."
Kennedy is simply the second lady to be appointed as US ambassador to Australia, following Genta H Holmes from 1997-2000.
The latest ambassador to the US, Arthur B Culvahouse Jr, ended his time down underneath in January 2021, which means it has been a couple of yr and a half since an official ambassador was in residence.