Modi Meets Australian Leaders in Melbourne, Addressing Huge Marvel Stadium Crowd
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 8
Modi Meets Australian Leaders in Melbourne, Addressing Huge Marvel Stadium Crowd
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jul 8
Summary
Melbourne hosts Narendra Modi for meetings with Australian political and business leaders on Wednesday and Thursday, with Anthony Albanese among those on his schedule.
Marvel Stadium is set to draw a huge crowd for Modi later Wednesday, a public show of support he said would add “vigour” to the India-Australia partnership.
The Melbourne stop follows Modi’s visit to Indonesia and comes before he heads to New Zealand, placing Australia in the middle of a broader regional tour.
Australia is also using high-level diplomacy elsewhere in the region: Albanese hosted the leaders of Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga at State of Origin as Canberra works to counter expanding Chinese influence in the Pacific.