{"id":845227,"date":"2026-08-06T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:22:11","slug":"australia-news-live-ed-husic-to-take-break-after-car-crash-h5n1-bird-flu-cases-rise-labor-gambling-reform-set-to-be-toughened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845227\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Ed Husic to take break after car crash; H5N1 bird flu cases rise; Labor gambling reform set to be toughened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet Vietnamese President To Lam next week during the newly elected leader\u2019s first visit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vietnamese General Secretary and President To Lam. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7f7a592dd7550114af1c62890ad9a17800a2480d.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ioInpc\"\/>Vietnamese General Secretary and President To Lam. Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>The leaders will meet in Canberra on Tuesday to \u201cdiscuss opportunities to deepen co-operation\u201d, according to a statement from the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vietnam-Australia relationship is grounded in deep strategic trust, mutual interests and a shared ambition for the future of our region,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur two nations share deep cultural ties, and around 350,000 Australians have Vietnamese heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, Australia and Vietnam signed an agreement to co-operate on defence, national security, education, energy, innovation, digital transformation and economic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam signed dozens of economic agreements with China last year, the country\u2019s largest trading partner, including <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/asia\/xi-s-neighbourly-charm-offensive-touches-a-raw-nerve-for-trump-20250414-p5lrj2.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deals on supply chains, artificial intelligence and railway co-operation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet Vietnamese President To Lam next week during the newly elected leader\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-845227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}