Australian PM caught on camera joking with senior US official over funding of Pacific policing plan
by Daniel Hurst in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from World news | The Guardian on (#6QAKN)
Anthony Albanese told journalists to chill out' over the comments filmed in the wings of the Pacific Islands Forum
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The Australian prime minister has been caught on camera in Tonga joking with a senior US official about going halvies" on the cost of a newly announced Pacific policing plan.
The deputy secretary of state, Kurt Campbell, appeared to suggest in the video that the US had been planning to pursue an unspecified security-related proposal but had been encouraged by Australia not to proceed.
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