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Nov 22, 2013
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Australia’s stumbling Abbott government has managed to insult two Asian nations over spying allegations, with a key advisor to the prime minister tweeting that Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa resembled a 1970s Filipino porn star.

The row over the tweet is just one of an astonishing string of gaffes by a government in Canberra that appears in…

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