Australian PM Albanese vows new funding to help women escape domestic violence after homicides rise

MELBOURNE, Australia — MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced new funding on Wednesday to help women escape domestic violence and a crackdown on misogynistic online content in reaction to an uptick in homicides committed by current and former male partners that he described as a national crisis. Albanese said his government … Read more

Australia’s PM Albanese calls Elon Musk ‘arrogant billionaire’ in spat

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lashed out at tech mogul Elon Musk on Tuesday, labeling him an “arrogant billionaire” over an ongoing dispute about whether videos from a church stabbing in Sydney should be shown on Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly Twitter. Albanese in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said his country … Read more

Australia’s Albanese calls for free and unimpeded trade with China on his visit to Beijing

BEIJING — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is calling for the “full resumption of free and unimpeded trade” with China in a meeting with his counterpart Li Qiang on the first visit by an Australian leader to China in seven years. Climate change, food security and transnational crime are areas in which the two nations … Read more

Australia’s Anthony Albanese visits China as rare earth issues looms

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SYDNEY — When Anthony Albanese sits down with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, the meeting will mark an achievement for the Australian prime minister, who has managed to mend once-fractured relations with his nation’s biggest trading partner without making concessions. Looming over the event, … Read more