Intro

President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have officially sat down together in China.

It's the crown in the jewel of this week’s diplomatic exercise, with friends (and enemies) across the world eager to hear what’s been said, and what the results might be. Has the PM successfully walked the diplomatic tightrope?

And on Australian soil former Treasury head Ken Henry has addressed the National Press Club, in the same week as FOI revelations from a Treasury report to the government on housing and tax threw up questions over whether lofty goals are reachable without major changes.

Patricia Karvelas and David Speers break it all down on Politics Now.

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