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- Anthony Albanese wraps up Asia tour as Xi Jinping and Donald Trump dominate APEC summit...
- A long-awaited Aged Care Act comes into force today
- Australia beat India by four wickets as Marsh and Hazlewood shine at the MCG.
The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on the final leg of his week long trip through Asia, meeting with regional leaders to discuss trade and other issues at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken center stage at the summit that began Friday in the South Korean city of Gyeongju, as U.S. President Donald Trump left the country a day earlier after reaching deals with Xi meant to ease their escalating trade war.
This year’s two-day APEC summit has been heavily overshadowed by the Trump-Xi meeting that was arranged on the sidelines.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says the world of rules-based open trade and investment has passed and the global economy is going through one of the most profound changes since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
At the summit Mr Carney says Canada is aiming to double its non-United States exports over the course of the next decade to counteract the Trump administration leading the U-S in a more anti-trade direction.
“And today, we're facing another hinge moment in history. Our world is undergoing one of the most profound shifts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That old world of steady expansion of rules-based, liberalised trade and investment, a world on which so much of our nations' prosperity, very much Canada's included, that world is gone. So our government is charting a new course, with an ambitious mission to double our non-U-S exports over the course of the next decade. And we're already making significant progress.”
A long-awaited Aged Care Act comes into force today four years after a Royal Commission recommended major reforms to the sector.
The federal government says it will give older Australians more choice and access to in-home support, but there are concerns many people will end up paying more for care. With an ageing population, Australia is facing skyrocketing demand for aged care services. According to the Treasury within 40 years, the number of people over the age of 65 is expected double, and the number of people aged over 85 will triple.
Craig Gear, the CEO of the Older Persons Advocacy Network or OPAN [[o-pan]], says that presents governments with a challenge.
"It's fantastic in Australia that we have an aging population and we have more older people around. But we need to make sure that we've provided a financial system and a financially viable aged care system that some of the levers in this new act help contribute to that."
The reforms are the long-awaited result of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Safety and Quality, which delivered its final report in 2021, to repair a system which many saw as broken.
Israel has struck Gaza for a fourth straight day, killing three people, according to Palestinian health officials, in the latest breach of a fragile ceasefire.
Local news provider, WAFA, reports that one person was killed by overnight shelling, another shot dead by Israeli forces, and a third succumbed to earlier injuries.
The Israeli military has not commented.
The US-brokered truce, now three weeks old, left key issues unresolved, including Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal, and has been repeatedly tested by fresh violence.
Earlier in the week, Gaza authorities said Israeli airstrikes in response to a soldier’s death killed 104 people.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are continuing to struggle to find food.
"We are coming out of a war and we're in a truce today. In the mornings, people are fighting each other. As much as people push to get food, they drop it on each other and get burned. We tell people: we demand food, drink, and to live with dignity."
Buckingham Palace says the King's brother has been told to vacate his home “as soon as practicable."
King Charles has stripped his brother Andrew of his princely title and his Windsor mansion, in a decisive move to contain the fallout from the disgraced royal’s links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Duke of York will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and will relocate from Royal Lodge near Windsor Castle to a smaller home on the King’s Sandringham Estate.
The decision follows mounting public anger and fresh scrutiny of Andrew’s finances.
Many in Windsor say the King’s action was long overdue.
"About time too. It's about time the king put his foot down and he went off and lived somewhere where he can't interfere with the royal family because his name's black. He's made too many mistakes."
Australia have beaten India with a four-wicket victory at the MCG on Friday night.
After the opening game of the five-match series in Canberra was washed out on Wednesday night, Australia went 1-0 up with a commanding performance.
With the huge crowd in Melbourne made up predominantly of Indian fans, Hazlewood silenced them from the beginning after captain Mitch Marsh won another toss and elected to bowl first.
Marsh, who has been in scintillating white-ball form, smashed one of the biggest ever sixes at the MCG when he blasted Harshit Rana into the second level of the Olympic Stand.
Josh Hazlewood was on a roll from the the beginning after captain Marsh smashed 46 from 26 deliveries, including a 124 metre six into the second tier, to top score for the Australians.
