Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness) Share this | Hansard source

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… one thing you understand about diplomacy and others do as well is the professional diplomats are paid to present, aah, particular views but what goes on behind the scenes can be quite different—what people say privately can be different to what they say publicly …

The deputy leader's comments were clearly calculated to imply that, regardless of the Indonesian government's public position, there was a private understanding between the Indonesian government and the coalition to support the coalition's dangerous turn-back policy.

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