Midday News Bulletin 17 November 2024

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says job creation and the inflation challenge will be his focus at the G20 summit
Labor pulls off a historic by-election victory in South Australia
First Nations athletes recognised at the National Indigenous Sports Awards
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Labor has won South Australia’s by-election in the electorate Black, with Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia conceding defeat.
A third of the vote has been counted, and the results so far show double-digit swings towards Labor and the Greens.
At the close of counting on Saturday night, Labor candidate Alex Dighton had polled more than 60 per cent of the two-party preferred basis against Liberal candidate Amanda Wilson.
Pre-poll and postal votes will be counted from Monday.
The result marks only the second time a South Australian government has taken a seat from the opposition at a by-election in more than 116 years.
The by-election was called last month after the seat was vacated by opposition leader David Speirs, who quit parliament after being charged by police with supplying a controlled substance.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the APEC meeting in Peru has been a success, with leaders agreeing on the importance of maintaining trade ties.
The 2024 APEC Leaders’ Declaration outlines the need to advance inclusive and interconnected trade initiatives, covering services trade, digital trade, and agricultural sustainability.
Mr Albanese says the transition to net zero was a topic discussed, and he made it clear that Australia aims to become a renewable energy superpower.
He will now travel to Brazil for the G20 Leaders’ Summit where he says more work can be done on strengthening trade – and the economy.
“I am looking forward to going to Brazil to participate in the G20 – that will be about advancing Australia’s economic interest. The creation of jobs, the lifting of living standards; and addressing what is a global inflation challenge. I am very pleased that we have reduced inflation, which when we came to office was over 6 per cent and rising – to now with a two in front of it, and falling.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to work with the incoming US administration of President-elect Donald Trump, as he held his final talks with outgoing President Joe Biden on key conflicts from cyber crime to trade, Taiwan and Russia.
Mr Biden met Xi for about two hours at a hotel where the Chinese leader was staying, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Peru, for their first talks in seven months.
Biden told Mr Xi that they haven’t always agreed with each other, but it is important they have been able to have discussions.
“We haven’t always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. We have never kidded one another. We’ve been level with one another. And I think that’s vital. These conversations prevent miscalculations, and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict, be competition not conflict. That’s our responsibility, to our people and as you indicated to the people around the world.”
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A cheese from Portugal has won the 2024 World’s Best Cheese award.
The event in the Portuguese city of Viseu featured 4,786 cheeses from 47 countries.
The winning entry was a soft, raw ewes’ milk cheese produced by a 10-employee company, Quinta do Pomar.
The cheese achieved the highest score from among 14 finalists that included entries from Switzerland, Brazil, the United States, Norway, Italy, Germany and Spain.
Among the attendees was Georgina Yescas Angeles Trujano – from Lactography, which supplies artisan Mexican cheeses to restaurants in Mexico City.
She says she takes great pride in raising awareness about the lesser known cheeses produced by under-represented women producers.
“I don’t want to sell cheese for someone that doesn’t need the help. What I am looking for is people that actually need the help because when you are buying cheese from artisanal cheesemaker, you are also their psychologist. So you have to make them understand that what they do is great. And they deserve to have the cheese sold into maybe a place where they never thought it could be sold – that cheese.”
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The winners of the National Indigenous Sports Awards have been announced at a grand gala held in Naarm Melbourne.
First held in 1986, the prestigious awards, this year presented by the Indigenous Sports Network, celebrate the wealth of First Nations athletic talent from across the continent.
Naghiralgal, Meriam and Kokotha man Patty Mills won Sports Person of the Year Award.
He represented Australia at the Olympics for a fifth time in basketball in Paris earlier this year.
The first woman to coach the Indigenous All Stars, Barkindji woman Jessica Skinner has won the Sports Coach of the Year Award.
She told NITV, the award is a tribute to the contributions of many people who supported her along the way – and she wants to see more women receive the title in the future.
She says she initially started out as a coach to bring more women to the game.
“It was actually my community. It had nothing to do (with aspirations of) being a national coach. It had everything to do with actually getting women involved in my local league. And just combating some social disconnect, particularly around the female space. I’m a school teacher by trade. So it was just getting kids involved in sport and exercising. So it started there and it just progressed from there to the elite level as the NRLW has grown, so has the coaching roles that have grown with it. So I’ve been pretty fortunate to grow with the game – and have these opportunities.”