Anthony Albanese tells a great little story about going to India as a leading member of parliament a few years ago and how he sent the local Australian diplomats into a minor frenzy. Facing a meticulously planned program of meetings and handshakes, Albanese gave officials the slip. “I horrified the people from the high commission by going to see Akshardham, a Hindu temple,” as the prime minister tells it. It was 2018, in New Delhi, and Albanese jumped on a local metro train by himself and headed to the outskirts of the capital. He’d been to the city nearly 30...