The body language and easy banter between the pair shows a lot of signs of genuine affection and respect.
The easy relationship will do both of them good both internationally and domestically in both of their markets.
The video and audio clips whirling around, will show that both countries and their leaders are in synch and that reflects well on the relationships between our countries.
It is not a fawning supplicant relationship but an equal meeting of the minds as we have not seen before between our two countries leaders.
Both of them should see a real bounce in their ratings as people of all partisan political persuasion like to see that the ANZUS relation ship is strong with leaders that openly support it in a mutually respectful way with clear and open respectful but not fawning two way communication between them.

They should get on, they are each about as bad for their country as the other.

Perhaps the main difference is Obama is much better at distributing the spoils of victory among his supporters, than is our lady.

Yes you can listen to Obama without making a note to buy ear plugs on your next trip to town, but does he say anything more useful?

An hour of platitudes & jokes is not much use, if that you need is a job.

Bill Cosby brought his family into our lounge rooms and we bonded with a beautiful person and his family.
Barak Obama did the same thing but I can't explain how except to note that he was never flustered or aggro or exaggerated , like Cosby he became the guy we liked to like ; Phoenix Rising enter the Blackman to the dizzy heights of Leadership.

In Gillard there is little to like or regard , very careless with the Truth , virulently anti Catholic and a total control freak it's her way or no way.
Our Prime Minister cursing Abbott all day every day is tedious indeed even more tedious should we try to define any gain from her assaults .
Labor needs urgently to skill up their people to exit bigbang theories
like BER and NBN and Carbon Capture, places that belong to Enterprise not the dead hand of Wiz Bang Populist Politics , if they concentrated on running the Country equitably the Citizens would be grateful rather than Confused .

NBN would not work for private enterprise, it would be confined to cities. The cost of Carbon is highly necessary for the long-term. There will be no more stimulus, you will take your chances. It is the coalition that labeled it a tax, instead of a cost. Your references to the PM of the day is immature. Control only comes from party agreement.
Anti catholic, is anyone not catholic anti! I think you see the noose on the wall.

Obama hs brought in under presidential signing orders,preventative dentention ie even if you have not committed a crime be held in detention with no legal council,official charges or proof of intent to commit a crime.He has also legalised assassination of suspected terrorists.

You call that freedom and democracy?

I thought Gillard played her sycophantic roll perfectly, even Howard would be proud of her and there was no bigger groveler to the US than our Johnny. Julie (that's what BO called her)can take much comfort with the thought that she's up there with the best of the US flunkies, and that includes GB's Blair. As for the ANUS alliance, treaty, bit of paper, whatever you want to call it, it has been of such great value to Australians. It has allowed so many of our young people to travel the World to such exotic places as Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan to name just 3. If we ever come under attack from the 'Yellow Peril'. Because we are now chums of the 'YP' people I cannot name the country they come from, other than to say they are north of us, live on a large blob of land and there are lots of them who eat rice. Any insult to the 'YP' people could jeopadise our boomerang sales, etc, which were up 4 billion percent last financial year. Sleep well Australia everybody loves us, well, if they don't they should.