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Art of the deal! Via the AFR:
Confusion surrounds the much-heralded refugee deal between Australia and the United States following reports President Donald Trump is yet to agree to accept refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
Only hours after White House spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed Mr Trump would honour the deal Malcolm Turnbull struck with the previous Obama administration, the ABC reported its Washington bureau had received a follow-up call from the White House saying the President was still considering the deal.
The ABC subsequently reported: “In a follow-up phone call to the ABC, a White House source said if the President does decide to honour the deal, it will only be because of America’s ‘longstanding relationship with Australia’.”
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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