Afternoon Update: Keating defends Wang Yi meeting; NT police mock certificates revealed; and teaching kids a life lesson

Wang will visit Australia this week for the first time in seven years. Wang is meeting Australian foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, in Canberra – then on to Sydney for talks with Keating.

In a statement, Keating said it was normal practice for “former Prime Ministers of all countries meet ministers of other countries most if not all the time”. He also said the Australian should be “contemptuously ignored” due to its editorial policy. Keating has been one of the most outspoken and strident opponents of the Aukus pact, and has been critical of Wong’s performance as foreign affairs minister.Keating had sent an explosive email to all of Anthony Albanese’s cabinet ministers, voicing his concerns about the Aukus pact.Victoria police closed the road between Wood Street and Murray Road in the Melbourne suburb of Preston after a man fell to his death from a hot air balloon..

for people fleeing Gaza, after several were stranded on their way out last week. Several Palestinians claimed last week that after being granted Australian visas they had escaped Gaza and made it to an airport in Cairo, but were then told their visas were cancelled.that claimed a third man’s life when they were swimming at a beach along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. The men were swimming in the ocean at Marengo near Apollo Bay when they got into trouble on Sunday afternoon, police said.

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