Article 5DVTH Marise Payne calls in Myanmar ambassador after Australian adviser to Aung Sun Suu Kyi detained

Marise Payne calls in Myanmar ambassador after Australian adviser to Aung Sun Suu Kyi detained

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Elias Visontay
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Foreign affairs minister says Australian government deeply concerned' about reports Sean Turnell has been detained in Myanmar

The Australian government has called in Myanmar's ambassador after Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, was detained after a military coup.

Turnell, who is also an economics professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, told Reuters he was being detained, but has been uncontactable since Saturday.

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