Anthony Albanese’s melon podcast comments about Japan’s leader reveal a hypocrisy in political standards

Mainstream feminist orthodoxy is riddled with ironies. But Labor’s recent melon fiasco offers a particularly ripe example.

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In May, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, gave Anthony Albanese two Shizuoka crown melons: greenhouse-cultivated fruit that can fetch hundreds of dollars each and carry genuine ceremonial significance in Japan.

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