Earlier this week, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had a quiet word with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the APEC summit in China.
Anger about conflict in Ukraine and the downing of MH17 - which had 38 Australian passengers on board - had pushed Mr Abbott to famously promise to "shirt-front" the Russian leader.
In other words, a stand-off, chest-to-chest, man-to-man, like on the Aussie footy pitch. That didn't happen.
But now, as Mr Putin arrives in Brisbane for the G20, the talk is of the Russian leader's "reverse shirt-front".
He's come to Australia not armed with language from the sports field but rather with a flotilla of warships.
They are cruising in the Coral Sea - in international waters - but nevertheless it's a provocative flexing of muscle, even if the Russian Navy pretends it isn't.
Done as much for the audience back home as for the rest of us.
It would be quite amusing, if the situation with Russia wasn't so serious.
Just before Mr Putin touched down in this usually so hospitable country, the least welcome of the G20 leaders received a shot across the bows from the summit's host.
"Russia would be so much more attractive if it was aspiring to be a superpower for peace and freedom and prosperity," Mr Abbott said.
He accused Russia of trying to regain "the lost glories of tsarism or the old Soviet Union", adding that the latest posturing with the warships in the waters north of Australia was part of a "regrettable pattern" of bullying and aggression.
Prime Minister David Cameron too has had a few words to say in Australia about Mr Putin.
He told reporters that if Mr Putin continues to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty, he doesn't think "Europe would have a choice but to maintain the sanctions we have".
And, without elaborating, he's said there could be "further measures that could be taken if Russia takes further steps to putting relationships between European countries and Russia on a very different basis".
Mr Cameron added: "I think Russia needs to know that this can't be like what happened in the past with other frozen conflicts, where the world has moved on.
"I don't think the world can move on from what's happened in Ukraine."
And Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a tense exchange with the Russian leader when he approached Mr Harper for a handshake at the summit.
"I guess I'll shake your hand, but I have only one thing to say to you: You need to get out of Ukraine," Mr Harper told Mr Putin, according to Mr Harper's spokesman, Jason MacDonald.
Mr MacDonald said Mr Putin "did not respond positively", but declined to give further details.
So, under the scorching Queensland sun this weekend, it's a case of the world's leaders putting up with Mr Putin.
Despite the 40C Brisbane weather forecast, the outlook appears frosty.
Original post fund here: http://news.sky.com/story/1373746/putins-frosty-welcome-in-sunny-brisbane
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