The Prime Minister has laid out his goals ahead of his visit to China.

Chris Luxon is about to leave for Shanghai with a business delegation, before making his way to Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping.

Luxon says he also wants to broaden the countries' trade relationship with a focus on red meat, tourism and education.

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The Government makes another step forward in upping Chinese visitor numbers, with a tweak to visa settings and processes.

From November, the Government will trial a visa waiver status for Chinese passport holders travelling from Australia, allowing them to visit for up to three months.

They must have a valid Australian visitor, work, student or family visa, with the trial lasting a year.

Immigration lawyer Arran Hunt says the number of Chinese visitors hasn't bounced back post-Covid, but believes this is a step in the right direction.

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The death toll continues to grow as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates.

Israel's initial attack on Friday has triggered a response from Iran as the two countries exchange air strikes.

According to The Associated Press, at least 406 Iranians have been killed with 654 wounded compared to the Israeli death toll of 13.

Israeli Journalist, Gideon Levy told Mike Hosking this is bearable for the short term, but what is unbearable is if it goes on for months.

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Police Minister Mark Mitchell says told Mike Hosking that police bodycams would help clear up misconceptions in the field.

He says he was talking to a young constable who was coward punched and a body camera would've made for compelling evidence.

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers wants the cameras to be implemented after a decision was put off last year.

Police are still looking into ways to deal with transparency issues laid bare when new tasers for frontline officers didn't include a camera.

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US police have found a 'hit list' of names after they confronted the man who shot and killed Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband in the state of Minnesota.

US correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that the 57-year-old suspect got away - but police were able to search his vehicle.

He says they found a papers listing around 70 names of other targets - as well as anti-abortion material.

The gunman had also shot another Democratic senator and his wife in their home - they both survived.

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An increasing number of regional conflicts - as well as Donald Trump's tariffs, are threatening the global economy.

Westpac Group Chief Economist Luci Ellis told Mike Hosking that she believes the tariffs were economic self-harm.

She says they still threaten the US economy and trade patterns will continue to change, but other countries aren't going to escalate.

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It's hardly a surprise, is it? Adrian looks at what Nicola is offering to run the place, packs a sad, and is off.

It’s a pathetic end to a tumultuous period in which we, the people who paid him, deserved an awful lot better.

The fact this information on the Orr resignation had to be dragged out of the bank by way of the Official Information Act, the rules of which were ignored as the bank failed to meet deadlines, shows you just what sort of place we are dealing with.

How you conduct yourself is critical. It's critical to all of us and even more critical the further up the totem pole you are.

There's nothing wrong with Adrian quitting if he genuinely believed the money being offered to run the bank wasn’t enough.

But you do it with some dignity.

You quit, you serve out your period, you offer reasons for you quitting and you move on with life.

In doing it that way you give us all an insight into what sort of human being you are. And in this case, you might well have been able to give us insight into how your organisation runs, what its thinking is, what the gap is between the bank and the Government and why you might be right, and they might be wrong.

It doesn’t have to turn into a scrap or a fallout. Just a series of adult ideas as to why people might see things at odds to each other.

If Covid taught us nothing else, it taught us the critical role of a central bank and what sort of people run it.

The way Adrian ran it is well documented and the general view held by many is widely traversed. But the sudden departure was another insight into why Adrian did things the way he did.

He is petulant. You don’t leave out of the blue and in silence. You don’t bail on hosting an international finance conference having said you were looking forward to it.

It's toys and sandpits with Adrian and then obfuscation from the bank when a few simple questions were asked.

If you can't conduct yourself, and the bank can't conduct themselves, with any great level of clarity, transparency and professionalism, is it any wonder the economy got run over the way it did?

Ol' Adrian won't be missed. But you would have hoped for something a bit more sophisticated on the way out.

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