Golden rule: If CCP is praising you - you're suss

We saw it during Covid with praise lavished on the The Scientists, now it's Albo's turn in the limelight ...

China Daily (CCP-image-vassal), reported that Australia's relationship to Beijing “deteriorated” when then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison "fell under Washington’s anti-China spell” during Trump’s last presidency. For the record - the most egregious thing Sco-mo said was: there should be an independent investigation into the origin of Covid.
That's it. They regretted saying it almost immediately & never mentioned it again, but the punishment (trade sanctions) was already decreed. Aus was hit with a blast of trade sanctions (except iron-ore, which CCP was still stockpiling at the time).

Sco-mo then lost power, replaced by known CCP-appeaser, Anthony Albanese.

China Daily editorial: But Canberra has woken up to the significance of those ties under the Albanese government and set out repairing them.

The strategic autonomy displayed has proved that those ties are in both parties’ interests. It is also evident that economic ties with China and the US do not have to be mutually exclusive.

China Daily concluded that Australia's journey of enlightenment might offer some useful reference for those struggling to strike such a balance.