Here is a look at what is making news around the country today.
Today’s national news includes the Army alliance deal signed between Australia and New Zealand; New Zealand Prime Minister to visit Australia; New Ambassador to Austria, and UN Representative in Vienna named; and Australian actress Maxine Klibingaitis dies ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’.
Nation
Army alliance deal signed between Australia, NZ
Australia and New Zealand announced plans for the allies’ armies to work more closely together as New Zealand looks to its larger neighbour for help reinvigorating armed forces battling worker shortages, Reuters has reported. Plan ANZAC aims to improve army interoperability with more cooperation over training, capability, readiness and personnel. Special forces troops were singled out as an area for continued cooperation. The plan will also support participation in the American, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Armies Programme, a military standardisation pact between the powers which also operate the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance.
Politics
NZ PM to visit Australia
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will welcome the Prime Minister of New Zealand, The Rt Hon Chris Hipkins, to Australia from 22 to 23 April as a guest of the Australian Government, Mirage News has reported. This will be Prime Minister Hipkins’ second visit to Australia as a leader. The visit will take place shortly before Anzac Day – a commemoration of a formative time in Australia and New Zealand’s shared history.
https://www.miragenews.com/visit-to-australia-by-prime-minister-of-new-988441/
Foreign relations
Australia Names New Ambassador to Austria, UN Representative in Vienna
Mr Ian Biggs has been announced as Australia’s next Ambassador to Austria. Mr Biggs will also be accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. He will also be Australia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he will also serve on the IAEA Board of Governors, Mirage News reported.
https://www.miragenews.com/australia-names-new-ambassador-to-austria-un-988418/
Entertainment
Australian actress Maxine Klibingaitis dies ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’
Australian actress Maxine Klibingaitis, who is best known for starring in Prisoner and Neighbours, has died. She was 58. Her death was announced on Facebook on Tuesday, News.Com has reported. “We regrettably announce that actress Maxine Klibingaitis has passed away today. Maxine played the much-loved character of Bobbie Mitchell in Prisoner, Terri Inglis in Neighbours and many other roles in Australian TV,” read a statement posted on the Prisoner Facebook fan club, Partners in Crime. Her last credited role was in a project called The House Cleaner in 2013.
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