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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s team has said Australia is a “close and strong ally of the United States”, according to the Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop.
Bishop, who is in New York for the leaders’ summit on refugees, expressed confidence in the US-Australia alliance despite fierce criticism from some in the Australian political system of the prospect of a Trump presidency and his hostility towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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