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Leaked video from an event in Australia shows the prime minister mocking President Donald Trump.

Nine News Australia obtained the footage of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at Wednesday night’s Midwinter Ball, an annual event attended by politicians, journalists and other power brokers. 

The event was supposed to be off the record, HuffPost Australia reported, to allow politicians to “let their hair down.” That’s just what Turnbull did, launching into a Trump impression as he described meeting his American counterpart last month. 

“It was beautiful,” Turnbull said, even delivering Trump-like hand gestures. “It was the most beautiful putting-me-at-ease ever.” 

Turnbull was just getting warmed up: 

“The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls. We are winning so much. We are winning like we have never won before. We are winning in the polls.

We are! We are! Not the fake polls. Not the fake polls! They’re the ones we’re not winning in. We’re winning in the real polls. You know, the online polls. They are so easy to win. I have this Russian guy. ”

The two leaders have had something of a tense relationship ― and at least one heated phone call last February. According to the Washington Post, Trump spent that conversation bragging about his electoral college win and complaining about a refugee agreement between the U.S. and Australia. Trump then told Turnbull it was his “worst call by far.”

“We had a very nice phone call,” Trump said when the two met three months later. “It got a little bit testy, but that is OK.” 

The in-person meeting was apparently much friendlier, with Trump saying “I love Australia. I always have.” 

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A federal judge on Wednesday said an environmental review of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline was inadequate, handing a last-minute victory to Native American tribes and environmentalists who have long opposed the project.

In a 91-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said the Army Corps of Engineers, which gave its final approval to the oil project in February, “did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effect are likely to be highly controversial.”

Boasberg ordered the agency to conduct new reviews of those sections of its environmental analysis, but did not halt the use of the pipeline, which began flowing oil on June 1.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which filed the lawsuit, called Wednesday’s decision a “significant victory.”

“The previous administration painstakingly considered the impacts of this pipeline, and President Trump hastily dismissed these careful environmental considerations in favor of political and personal interests,” tribe chairman Dave Archambault said in a statement. “We applaud the courts for protecting our laws and regulations from undue political influence, and will ask the Court to shut down pipeline operations immediately.”

The $3.8 billion, 1,170-mile pipeline has been at the center of an environmental battle for more than a year after thousands of activist, many with Standing Rock, descended on a small region of North Dakota to protest. The monthslong standoff drew international media attention and led the Army Corps of Engineers to pull the plug on the project. 

However, just weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order reopening both the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. Now in operation, at its peak, the Dakota Access pipeline could ship up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day.

The courts have previously rejected legal arguments to shut down the pipeline. Boasberg in February allowed the project to go ahead after siding with its owner, Energy Transfer Partners, over a lawsuit that alleged the pipeline threatened cultural and historic sites.

The judge said he would consider whether the pipeline should shut down while a new environmental review is being conducted at a later time, The Guardian reports.

“This decision marks an important turning point. Until now, the rights of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have been disregarded by the builders of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Trump administration ― prompting a well-deserved global outcry,” Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the group Earthjustice, which represented the Standing Rock Sioux, said in a statement. “The federal courts have stepped in where our political systems have failed to protect the rights of Native communities.”

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MELBOURNE, June 15 (Reuters) – Australian comedian Rebel Wilson has won a defamation suit against a global magazine publisher after the Victorian Supreme Court found a series of articles alleging she was a serial liar had damaged her career, local media reported on Thursday.

The Sydney-born actress, who appeared in Hollywood’s Pitch Perfect films, said articles published by Bauer Media claiming she had lied about her age, real name and some childhood experiences cost her significant acting roles and income.

After four weeks of hearing testimony from Wilson herself, local journalists and several Hollywood celebrities, the jury of six at Victoria’s Supreme Court found unanimously in her favor.

“I was hoping that the jury would do the right thing and send a message to these tabloids. And they’ve done that,” Wilson said at a press conference following the court decision broadcast by Sky News.

“I really love my job as an actress and an entertainer and now I look forward to rebuilding my career as the record has been set straight.”

Wilson found a breakout role in the 2011 comedy hit “Bridesmaids.” But after the articles were published in Woman’s Day and other Bauer-owned magazines in 2015, Wilson said she was told by the makers of Kung Fu Panda that she had become “too divisive” for a family film, according to her testimony, the Guardian reported.

She also said she was subsequently fired from the DreamWorks animated film Trolls and she was not offered any other roles, according to the Guardian report.

A spokeswoman for Bauer Media said the publisher would “consider its options” following Thursday’s verdict.

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