{"id":75267,"date":"2025-11-20T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/secret-translation-nauru-president-interview-nzyq-deal-australia-suppressed"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:02:18","slug":"secret-translation-of-nauruan-presidents-interview-on-nzyq-deal-with-australia-to-stay-suppressed-for-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75267","title":{"rendered":"Secret translation of Nauruan president\u2019s interview on NZYQ deal with Australia to stay suppressed for decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Wong says translation notes were \u2018taken hastily\u2019 by official who was not accredited translator and were \u2018for internal purposes only\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/nov\/20\/australia-news-live-volcano-java-labor-nature-laws-coalition-sussan-ley-anthony-albanese-nsw-leadership-spill-liberal-chaos-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?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><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top secret translation of the Nauruan president\u2019s public commentary on the NZYQ deal will remain suppressed for a decade after the Albanese government considered its release \u201cinappropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nauru declined to endorse an informal translation by Australia\u2019s high commission of the 10-minute public interview uploaded to Facebook in February, nor did it provide its own translation, newly released documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/secret-translation-nauru-president-interview-nzyq-deal-australia-suppressed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Wong says translation notes were \u2018taken hastily\u2019 by official who was not accredited translator and were \u2018for internal purposes only\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5064,"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":[41,43,388,629,874,3448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-tony-burke"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75267","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\/5064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75267\/revisions\/75268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}