‘I should’ve done the elbow bump’: Plibersek and Albanese brush off awkward greeting at Labor election campaign launch
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Tanya Plibersek and Anthony Albanese have brushed off an awkward moment at Sunday's Labor federal election campaign launch when the prime minister appeared to block a hug from the environment minister, insisting that the pair are good friends.
The interaction took place as Albanese greeted members of his frontbench in the audience, with Jim Chalmers giving him a backslap and the former PM Julia Gillard shaking his hand, before Albanese held her arm up in the air.
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