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Australia’s new top envoy says her ‘focus is firmly on the future’ of CPTPP

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Australian High Commissioner Natasha Smith, a champion of LGBTQ2 rights and gender equality, says she's happy to be in Canada where those values are strongly upheld. The Hill Times photograph by Shruti Shekar

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

March 28, 2018

Australia’s new high commissioner says officials from her country signalling they would block Canada’s admission to Asia’s top security forum, the East Asia Summit, had nothing to do with tensions that bubbled up when Canada was a no-show at a key Trans-Pacific Partnership trade-deal meeting l...

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