{"id":851353,"date":"2026-08-11T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:20:10","slug":"australia-pm-anthony-albanese-under-fire-for-remarks-over-sanae-takaichis-melon-gift-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851353\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia PM Anthony Albanese under fire for remarks over Sanae Takaichi&#039;s melon gift &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBFbzl1Z3pKUkdmWVlqbUUwMkQtaDlnUDh0VkVQeHBZdVpNblNKdF9vUHdhX2ZxSG5tMnlBNnJBbm9rMTNUUTEtRUZfZFVzSjZIVUl1VFdURlJqdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia PM Anthony Albanese under fire for remarks over Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s melon gift<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxNV2xwOEo2aW9GWTg3U3JsSU1SeERUdzFPeTFTMV9hOVVXV1VyTU9EUzBSNmhzc29fUHJJTjNWUFBYVzdfMHJteG5DU3BBTWs1MU1qT0tWcjl0ZUVzdm1VdHROZ2FmOE9SVDJZOWRjQVczVmZwVzhySF9rLUhtVjZ5eU1YYnFZWG9lLXJJTzB3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM rejects suggestion melon comment was a &#8216;classless&#8217; reference about women \u2014 as it happened<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ABC News &amp; Headlines \u2013 Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3AFBVV95cUxNc2ZZRVh1WjBnRnYzYXVpbV96REpoR3dCc2dURUJ6RU9aMmRlSGx6VUZTMmRHSlBweXlKNXFacHNNa21MbkJsOTE4aHQ2TGdnajctdXJ2SUh3WTllaE1PS1UteGItbDhtRmY5a0RWR2VaSUlUQ0FEMEdQUDUzckE4QnQ0cnpYbVFYb3UweHduMEVBclkwcGhOOERkd3FabS14YWt5R09mcUFyeDBKSW5lbk5xVVNTRkJJT1RxRWVScDRka3YyM2RZWUF5YlNzVzVrc0dCbGxvTGlINFJr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coalition demands AFP probe of diplomatic cables over PM\u2019s melon gaffe<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;SMH.com.au<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1AFBVV95cUxNd1M1dXdtNW81NlFwaTRCcEM5QlN2SW4zTlRrTmRrSGVwdG16V0JsSk1oVlY0UndweWdNRzFyNjBTOTJkVVp4UjZYZjBxdXJGb2hGV3J2UzBSWVl1SW1XRXlldm10dXBoMk5zVGtrajhTeElkMUFQazBWZkpWRUVnbk9CLUE1ODRjaUl3VFBJTHRsWUZyMUZHWWxKeXdibFlsMFFFLWlCOVlnWEU1SFkwT05Wd0kzRnc0c0szYnlGbkpuWkJSV0Vudnl4cm9maGFqM1UyRQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australia\u2019s prime minister refuses to apologise to Japanese counterpart over melon gaffe<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxPT25sVGlFQnJOakh5WlRDNDU0XzRjWFlNMXJPUUU4Zm51ZVppZ3JaLTFXN3VoOE9jZzkzWkNRYzdRTjY2em1rejlNLXM1RHJaX1lVSm1RdFNFOTd1LTF2VzJKT2RlLW84d29tU1lqV0Z4ZWpIY2RlcHI1aHdyODhqYkNOS0xGcDRBX2FPOHVHVHE3ZUZTbVpBc0VnTUJsbzRycmppM3U1cVViYzdKMTJQVEU5MEpUUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sexist melon haters: Japan\u2019s social media fires up over Albanese gaffe<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;AFR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia PM Anthony Albanese under fire for remarks over Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s melon gift&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCPM rejects suggestion melon comment was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-851353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}