A native of Gary, Indiana, Barnett went on to star for the Tennessee A&I teams that made up one of college basketball’s first dynasties. The Tigers won three straight NAIA championships starting in 1957, with Barnett being chosen an All-American each season and twice being selected the MVP of the NAIA Tournament.
The opposition argues the government’s policy of replacing coal and gas with renewable energy sources including wind turbines and solar cells is unachievable, and would reduce investment in clean energy technologies.The opposition would rely on more gas to generate electricity until atomic power was established. It would not set a new target for 2030 before the election.
Trade and diplomatic relations between Australia and China plunged to new depths in 2020 after the previous conservative Australian government demanded an international inquiry into the origins of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Beijing barred minister-to-minister contacts with Australia and imposed a series of official and unofficial bans on commodities including coal, wine, barley, wood and lobsters that cost Australian exporters up to 20 billion Australian dollars ($13 billion) a year.The thaw started almost immediately with the election of the Labor Party in 2022. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang wrote to congratulate Albanese on his election victory within days.
and Albanese met President Xi Jinping during a state visit to Beijing in 2023.Albanese often says about China: “We will cooperate where we can, disagree where we must and engage in the national interest.”
Opposition leader Peter Dutton, a longtime critic of China, has claimed that bilateral relations would improve even further with a tough and uncompromising approach. He has accused Albanese of self-censorship to avoid offending Beijing.
“Australia must be willing to criticize any nation whose behavior imperils stability in the region, and that’s what a coalition government I lead will do confidently and in concert with like-minded countries,” Dutton told the Lowy Institute international policy think tank in Sydney in March.MUMBAI, India (AP) — Shubman Gill was named as India’s new test skipper on Saturday to lead the team on its five-test tour of England starting June 20.
The 25-year-old batter takes over from Rohit Sharma, who announced hisdoing the same. Sharma last led India against Australia during the Boxing Day test.
“We discussed every option that’s there, over the last year or so, and we have looked at Shubman various times,” selection committee chairman Ajit Agarkar said. “We have taken a lot of feedback from the dressing room. We are hopeful he is the guy — he is a terrific player and our best wishes to him.”Gill will lead India for the first time in tests, having had only T20 captaincy experience prior.