Turnbull insists US deal to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus will survive Trump's inauguration

By David Wroe, National Security Correspondent
Updated December 4 2016 - 11:13pm, first published 5:28pm
Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos told Sky News on Sunday that Washington ambassador Joe Hockey and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been speaking with senior people in Mr Trump's transition team. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos told Sky News on Sunday that Washington ambassador Joe Hockey and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had been speaking with senior people in Mr Trump's transition team. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Arthur Sinodinos believes the deal will still go ahead. Photo: ABC
Arthur Sinodinos believes the deal will still go ahead. Photo: ABC

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull maintains he is confident a Trump administration will not torpedo a deal for the US to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island as American officials prepared to start vetting people in the offshore detention centres.

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