{"id":66459,"date":"2024-08-29T06:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/australian-pm-caught-on-camera-joking-with-senior-us-official-over-funding-of-pacific-policing-plan"},"modified":"2024-08-29T06:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:56:44","slug":"australian-pm-caught-on-camera-joking-with-senior-us-official-over-funding-of-pacific-policing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66459","title":{"rendered":"Australian PM caught on camera joking with senior US official over funding of Pacific policing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese told journalists to \u2018chill out\u2019 over the comments filmed in the wings of the Pacific Islands Forum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/aug\/29\/australia-news-live-pacific-policing-earthquake-tourism-metro-gas-power-energy-renting-housing-cost-of-living\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian prime minister has been caught on camera in Tonga joking with a senior US official about going \u201chalvies\u201d on the cost of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/denial-of-china-a-stumbling-block-as-pacific-leaders-push-back-at-australian-police-training-plan\">newly announced Pacific policing plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/australian-pm-caught-on-camera-joking-with-senior-us-official-over-funding-of-pacific-policing-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese told journalists to \u2018chill out\u2019 over the comments filmed in the wings of the Pacific Islands ForumFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian prime min&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4391,"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":[961,41,43,324,874,581,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-tonga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459","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\/4391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66465,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66459\/revisions\/66465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}