Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Hiroshima, where he was warmly welcomed by a delegation from Japan, to participate in the G7 summit taking place from Friday, May 19 to Sunday, May 21.
Anthony Albanese's biggest challenge, a year after being sworn in as PM, has been dealing with global uncertainty this week in the form of the US being gripped by the "blocking and disruption" of its polarised domestic politics, writes David Speers.
the domestic debt limit issue back home, skipping the quad summit, of course, in sydney. how is this going to be viewed by its allies? so there was a fear initially that president biden was going to skip the g7 summit altogether and miss his entire presence in the region. i think the japanese, the hosts, are relieved that president biden will at least make it to the g7 summit. but you re right, by skipping out on the quad meeting and not being able to be the first president to visit papua new guinea, this does send sort of a mixed message to the region about us commitment. but at the same time, democracies have domestic politics that they have to deal with. and i do think talking to friends injapan, they do understand the domestic problems that president biden is facing and the fact that he does have to go home to tend to those. it s probably the most famous shipwreck of all time, the focus of countless documentaries and hollywood movies, but there s a version of the titanic you haven
Like Albanese, Plibersek is pragmatic, but probably hasn’t moved quite so far to the centre as he has. If she were running things, would this Labor government have a more radical tinge?