This may be useful to someone at Q's end. A 2017 report on North Korean embassy request in 2014. Clapper sent this request to PM Kevin Rudd, Labor (and some suspect a Maoist) but the election changed it to PM Tony Abbott a conservative, Australian Liberal party. The decision was made as described.
Rudd closed the North Korean embassy in Canberra shortly before losing the election. It looks like Clapper was banking on a Rudd Labor win and wanted Australia left in on whatever deal he was running with the Generals in the DPRK.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/canberra-tells-cia-thanks-but-no-thanks-over-pyongyang-embassy/news-story/8b3da4a04a161f80be11aaf50a65fbb6
Julia Gillard, Rudd's deputy and replacement PM, it went back and forth a bit in a power struggle. Is also the most prominent person at Hillary Clinton's visits this year in Australia. Gillard is a known fabian socialist leader, union lawyer and feminist academic.
Does it help?
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