PM arrives in South Africa for G20 summit; NSW Liberals meet to decide new leader after Speakman resigns; Fatigue cracks found in cargo plane that crashed and killed 14

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese landed in South Africa this morning for the G20 countries summit planned for the weekend.

US President Donald Trump said he would not attend the meeting and would boycott the leader’s summit.

“It is an absolute disgrace that the G20 is being held in South Africa,” he wrote on Truth Social earlier this month.

Repeating the false claim he made to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House, he said: “Africans [people who are manly descended from Dutch settlers, but also French and German immigrants] They are being killed, massacred, their lands and farms are unlawfully seized.”

The G20 consists of 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union and, since 2023, the African Union.