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What happened today By Angus Delaney Thanks for reading our national news live blog. This is where we’ll leave it for today.
Here’s a look at today’s biggest headlines:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has had his first face-to-face encounter with US President Donald Trump and locked in a bilateral meeting for October 20 in Washington, after months of criticism for failing to meet with the US leader. Albanese posted a selfie of him and Trump at the UN General Assembly in New York. Optus chief executive Stephen Rue said that a crucial step in upgrading the telco’s process was not followed and is the cause behind the Triple Zero call failures last week, in which three people died after calls were not connected. Rue said emergency calls were not diverted away from the core part of the network and described it as a “process breakdown”. The chief executive of Singtel – the parent company of Optus – has broken his silence over the network outage, saying that it stands behind Optus’ board and management and apologised for the failure. “Our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who have passed away and we know that Optus will get to the bottom of this matter,” chief executive Yuen Kuan Moon said in a statement. Trump stunned the UN this morning with an address in which he lectured the world on the “disaster” of unchecked immigration and the “con job” of climate change in a defiant and at-times threatening address that asserted American dominance and put other leaders on notice. He urged nations present, particularly those in Europe, to control their borders and preserve their sovereignty, and argued that what made the world beautiful was not a mix of peoples and cultures but “that each country is unique”. Doctors at Al-Shifa, one of Gaza City’s last functioning hospitals, say they are overwhelmed with casualties from Israeli strikes and are having to carry out operations in filthy conditions with few or no anaesthetics, the BBC has reported. One Australian medic volunteering at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that every day was a mass casualty event. Monthly inflation has risen to 3 per cent, the highest in a year. While the 3 per cent headline rate is at the top of the Reserve Bank’s target range, the bank focuses more heavily on underlying inflation and the quarterly inflation report. Treasurer Jim Chalmers told the media today that the inflation rise is “what the market expected”. That’s a wrap for today, we’ll be back tomorrow with more live c
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