A journalistic ethics expert has expressed scepticism about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s claim that a Radio New Zealand reporter behaved unethically at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga.
Albanese levelled the accusation at RNZ journalist Lydia Lewis after she recorded him speaking alongside US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, joking about the cost of a new regional policing arrangement.
Albanese asked Campbell whether the United States would be open to going “halvies” on the newly announced Pacific Policing Initiative, an agreement that Campbell appeared to infer the US pulled out of at Ambassador Kevin Rudd’s request.
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