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What happened when Australian PM Albanese met Donald Trump at the UN?
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Good morning, I'm Andrew Williams.
And I'm Larissa Huntington.
It's Thursday the 24th of September in your Squiz Today. Albanese and Trump meet at the United Nations, a new war has broken out in Ethiopia, valet to rose tattoo frontman Angry Anderson, and bringing toddlers to a rave. This is your Squiz Today. Louisa, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in New York at the moment for the United Nations General Assembly. We've mentioned this a few times. He's got a lot on today. He's set to receive a Global Citizen Award for his diplomatic work in the Indo-Pacific region. And he's going to use his acceptance speech to warn the US and China against using that region as a chessboard for their own interests.
Yeah, he's had a busy week over there. He's launched our bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.
How are the US “My Feed, My Way” draft laws affecting Australian social‑media policy?
You and Anna talked about that earlier. And he's also co-led an event on AI and digital safety. But his government's stance on those things is a bit of a point of contention between us and the US at the moment. Didn't stop him and US President Donald Trump from posting a selfie together yesterday, though. No,
it did not.
And just to fill you in a bit there, the Trump administration took the rare step of making a public submission on our proposed laws that would give Aussies the choice to opt out of social media companies' algorithms and force the big tech platforms to take action to prevent content that could inflict serious harm on children.
And you might remember they're called the My Feed, My Way draft laws. The US argues that they amount to censorship. It has concerns about how Australia will decide what is or isn't harmful. And it's called for US companies to be exempt from those laws. But the PM has pushed back on that criticism. He says that he'll always stand up for Australia's national interests. And he says the draft legislation isn't about government control or censorship, but is about giving people back control over what they receive on their devices.
Yeah, and another big conversation that's really dominated the summit has been about AI. 22 leaders, including Albanese, have signed a statement calling for global guardrails around the tech. But Trump made it pretty clear in his speech to the UN that the US would reject any attempt at regulation. And he says that AI should be rebranded superintelligence in America.
What are the key disagreements between the US and Australia over AI regulation and the Iran conflict?
He's called for that on all official documents. And now with the US midterms approaching, the President also flagged that he was facing a pretty big decision over the war with Iran, which has been going on now for nearly seven months.
He did. He warned that Iran could be annihilated if it didn't come to the table on a deal. There's been action on that overnight. There's been talks between the US and Iran. Nothing's necessarily concrete coming out of those yet, but Iran did publicly push back on those comments. President Massoud Pazeshkian told the UN that it would never bend the knee to to the U.S. But Trump has left New York. By the time that happened, he's headed back to Washington, D.C., where he's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping today. With the war, oil supply issues, AI, and tariffs all likely to be high on the agenda. We're going to head over to Africa now, where a new war has broken out in Ethiopia, and some analysts, Larissa, are concerned that it could spread into neighboring countries as well.
So the fighting began yesterday between federal Ethiopian troops and forces from the country's northern region of Tigray. Now, Andrew, we had to get across a bit of the history here.
Why did a new war break out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and could it spread?
Tigray is a small part of Ethiopia, but its main party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or the TPLF, ran the government for nearly three decades before the current PM, R.B. Ahmed, came to power in 2018. And he and the TPLF quickly fell out, leading to a civil war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives before a peace deal was signed in 2022.
So that peace deal held mostly, it was patchy at times and increasingly patchy in recent days, but it completely broke yesterday when the TPLF launched what it called a defensive war against RB's government, accusing it of ongoing aggression.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What happened when Australian PM Albanese met Donald Trump at the UN?
0:00–0:55
2
How are the US “My Feed, My Way” draft laws affecting Australian social‑media policy?
0:55–2:23
3
What are the key disagreements between the US and Australia over AI regulation and the Iran conflict?
2:23–3:31
4
Why did a new war break out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and could it spread?
3:31–5:18
5
Who is Mohamed Bakit and what charges were laid against him for extremist online activity?
5:18–6:22
6
What legacy did Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson leave after his death?
6:22–7:41
7
How is DJ Lenny Pierce turning toddler songs into rave‑ready techno?
7:41–8:30