Here is a look at what is making news around the country today.
Today’s national news includes PM Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussing trade and security disputes; PM Albanese being ‘obsessed’ with topics irrelevant to average Australians; Australia becoming less liveable; and five people dead, six injured after car crashes into pub beer garden.
Politics
PM Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss trade, security disputes
Prime Minister Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon sit down for a drought-breaking bilateral meeting in Beijing, with trade talks on top of the agenda, BBC News reported. Mr Albanese is calling for the removal of Chinese tariffs on Australian goods, while Mr Xi is expected to ask for more access to key Australian sectors. Mr Albanese, who landed in Shanghai on Saturday, is the first Australian leader to visit China since 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67329892
PM Albanese ‘obsessed’ with topics irrelevant to average Australians
Headline Advisory Director Andrew Carswell says there is a “growing disconnect” between the Australian public and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after failing to address what matters to everyday people. “The struggle is real but it’s whether the struggle is being realised and felt and understood at a government level is the problem here,” he said. This is off the back of Food Bank Australia’s 2023 Hunger Report revealing 3.7 million households are going hungry and for three-quarters of these households, it is the first year they have ever experienced food insecurity, SkyNews reported.
Nation
Australia becoming less liveable
Australia is said to be getting less liveable for First Nations people and some other community groups, SBS has reported. The report surveyed over 25,000 Australians of different social and cultural backgrounds to get a sense of what it’s like to live in various communities across the country. Dr Lucy Gunn, a Senior Research Fellow with the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT in Melbourne, believes that while Australian cities are doing well, more needs to be done across all parts of the country, especially in rural areas.
Regions
Five dead, six injured after car crashes into pub beer garden
The horror crash saw a luxury BMW SUV mount the curb and crash into the crowded roadside beer garden of the Royal Daylesford Hotel in the rural town of Daylesford, northwest of Melbourne. Five people have been killed and six others injured after a car ploughed into the outdoor dining area of a pub, Aljazeera reported. The driver tested negative for alcohol and his blood was being analysed for other impairing substances. Investigators did not yet know if excessive speed was a factor in the accident.
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