Here’s what’s making news further afield this morning:
US President Donald Trump will call Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin later today after Trump held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a high-powered European delegation in the White House to end the war in Ukraine earlier today.
The meeting between Trump and Zelensky was markedly more cordial than their February encounter.
Two weeks before his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, writes political and international editor Peter Hartcher, Donald Trump said Russia’s war on Ukraine was disgusting: “Russia? I think it’s disgusting what they’re doing. I think it’s disgusting.” Even as he flew to Alaska to meet Putin, Trump told reporters on Air Force One: “I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don’t know if it’s going to be today, but I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today.” Yet there is no ceasefire.
Closer to home, Australians want Anthony Albanese to deliver important new reforms out of the government’s economic roundtable before the next election, but they draw the line at any move to lift the GST or broaden its scope. The three-day economic reform roundtable will begin later today
Israel has revoked the visas for Australian diplomats at a key office in the Palestinian territories out of anger at the Albanese government’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state, drawing a rebuke from Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
In the US, a woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, has agreed to plead guilty.
The Wallabies’ famous victory over South Africa at Ellis Park on Sunday did not just end a 62-year drought, it could also help deliver the perfect home World Cup for Australia in two years.
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