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Australia ‘in conversation’ with PNG to provide support following landslide

The defence minister and deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, is speaking to ABC RN about the massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, where more than 670 people are believed to have been killed.

We’ve made clear to the PNG government what support we could provide, and the exact nature of the support that we do provide will play out over the coming days …

There may be other equipment that we can bring to bear in terms of the search and rescue, and all of that we are talking through with PNG right now … it’s just now a matter of working out exactly what we can do in the context of this occurring in a very remote part of the country.

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