Oz Gaffes Explode into Indonesian Diplomatic Crisis
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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