{"id":875816,"date":"2026-09-01T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875816\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:52:11","slug":"australia-news-live-nsw-man-first-australian-declared-dead-in-nepal-as-flood-death-toll-exceeds-900-trump-vows-to-hit-iran-hard-as-middle-east-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875816\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: NSW man first Australian declared dead in Nepal as flood death toll exceeds 900; Trump vows to \u2018hit Iran hard\u2019 as Middle East tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albanese has said now is not the appropriate time to question whether the devastating flash floods impacting the Nepal-Tibet border region were caused by climate change, despite the Nepali government calling for a \u201cglobal effort\u201d to address its environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Nepal, there will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused at this point in time on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we\u2019re going through, and offering our support to Nepal,\u201d Albanese told a press conference on the Pacific island of Palau.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Nepalese army, police and ministry volunteers search Dhunge after it was impacted by the Nepal flood disaster. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aa50827793ea6998259557b483bc2e3de19e0946.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The Nepalese army, police and ministry volunteers search Dhunge after it was impacted by the Nepal flood disaster. Kate Geraghty<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose debates will take place, but I don\u2019t think, from Australia\u2019s perspective, now\u2019s the time. My focus is very much on people who are incredibly traumatised by not knowing what has happened to their loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his press conference Albanese shared his support for those affected and the Nepali community in Australia. He also said that climate change would be a significant focus of the ongoing Pacific Islands Forum, which he is attending this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albanese has said now is not the appropriate time to question whether the devastating flash floods impacting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-875816","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\/875816","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=875816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}