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Tess Ikonomou

Australia urged to lasso US back to Indo-Pacific region

Kurt Campbell says no nation punches so far above its weight in Washington than Australia. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia is being counted on to use its influence as a close US ally to urge Washington to do more in the Indo-Pacific region and acknowledge it as the "cauldron of the future".

Kurt Campbell, a former US deputy secretary of state, said he believed Anthony Albanese would make an appeal to Donald Trump to continue a "strong partnership" with Australia in the Pacific.

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