CANBERRA, ACT, Nov. 3 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:This morning I had the great honour of giving the keynote address at the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here in Antigua. The Commonwealth is an important institution of which Australia has played an important historical part. 56 countries representing one third of the world's population, 2.7 billion people. The combined economies will be pretty close to $30 trillion dollars next year. That represents a double of what it was just a decade ago. Today, I was able to engage as well in meetings and discussions talking about a number of issues. Firstly, the global economy. One in four Australian j...