{"id":50318,"date":"2022-11-17T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/a-remarkable-man-anthony-albanese-confirms-release-of-sean-turnell-from-mynamar-jail"},"modified":"2022-11-17T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:12:51","slug":"a-remarkable-man-anthony-albanese-confirms-release-of-sean-turnell-from-mynamar-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50318","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A remarkable man\u2019: Anthony Albanese confirms release of Sean Turnell from Mynamar jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM pays tribute to foreign minister Penny Wong for diplomacy that led to freeing of Australian economist after 650 days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to his foreign minister Penny Wong and to regional neighbours while confirming that the economist Sean Turnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/myanmar-to-free-australian-sean-turnell-and-briton-vicky-bowman-amid-prisoner-release\">has been released from prison in Myanmar<\/a> and is on his way home to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s prime minister spoke to Turnell \u2013 a former adviser to the democratically elected civilian government led by ousted leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/aung-san-suu-kyi\">Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a> \u2013 after arriving in Bangkok on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/17\/a-remarkable-man-anthony-albanese-confirms-release-of-sean-turnell-from-mynamar-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM pays tribute to foreign minister Penny Wong for diplomacy that led to freeing of Australian economist after 650 daysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has paid tribute to his foreign minister Pe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[961,43,645,324,82,1767,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-myanmar","category-penny-wong","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50329,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50318\/revisions\/50329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}