India, June 10 -- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government has spoken with the U.S. administration over the shooting of an Australian journalist with a rubber bullet while she was covering the ongoing protests in Los Angeles.

Television news reporter Lauren Tomasi was shot in the leg when she was covering the protest for Australia's Nine Network News on Sunday.

The rubber bullet, which hit the journalist, was reportedly shot by a police officer in the city's downtown area.

He said: "That was the footage of an Australian journalist doing what journalists do at their very best, at their very best, which is to go into an environment that's not comfortable. But where, in LA, it is not unreasonable to think that she would not hav...