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Australian PM caught on camera joking with senior US official over funding of Pacific policing plan
Anthony Albanese tells journalists to ‘chill out’ over comments filmed in the wings of 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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