Australia will get an effective veto right over Nauru entering a security agreement with another country under a pact that will prop up the Pacific nation's budget. It essentially locks out a policing agreement with China as Australia pushes back against Beijing's moves to gain a security foothold in the region after it signed a pact with the Solomon Islands. In exchange, Australia will provide $100 million for Nauru's budget and $40 million for policing and security, both over five years. Vision courtesy: AAP
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00:00As you heard me say, I'm going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be in a
00:30Australia is very familiar to a lot of people, you know, our relations go back well before
00:38my time generation. For example, myself and my speaker spent a lot of years at school
00:45in Melbourne, and with our children, school here as well.