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Martin Farrer
Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Emily Wind with the main action.
Anthony Albanese has met China’s president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brazil overnight with Beijing trying to promote Australia as a model for trading with China in a Trump era. Albanese said there had been “encouraging progress in the stabilisation of our relationship”. We’ll have more details coming up soon.
Our latest Guardian Essential poll taken in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win finds that almost half of voters want the Australian government to review Aukus and the acquisition of nuclear submarines. The poll also finds that most of those asked think his presidency will be bad for the global economy and conflict resolution.
It’s a busy day for surveys. Almost half of Australians (49%) believe immigration is too high but the large majority (71%) still think that migrants make the country stronger and that multiculturalism has benefited the nation (85%). These are perhaps contradictory findings from the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s annual survey, Mapping Social Cohesion, out today. One of the lead authors said that despite the stresses caused by the Middle East crisis, the findings “speak to the resilience” of Australian society.
The minutes of the Reserve Bank’s last monetary policy meeting will be released this morning and should shed some more light on the thinking behind keeping rates on hold. We’ll be across the news when it breaks at 11.30 but we also have some more context with a study showing that the cost-of-living crisis is affecting young people much more than older cohorts.
