Federal Politics Live Blog: Modi Arrives for Summit, Telstra Outage Reaction

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Australia for the Australia-India Annual Leaders' Summit and will meet with PM Anthony Albanese.
The live blog will also cover political reactions to yesterday's Telstra outage.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Australia for a summit with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The blog also notes political reactions to a recent Telstra outage.

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Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog! Thanks for joining us early on this chilly Canberra morning.

I'm Josh Boscaini joining you live from Parliament House, here and ready to bring you all of today's federal politics news.

India's PM Narendra Modi has touched down in Australia and will meet Anthony Albanese at the Australia–India Annual Leaders' Summit.

We'll bring you more on that when it happens and any further political reaction from yesterday's Telstra outage.

Let's launch this blog!! 🚀🚀

Open Questions

What will be discussed at the summit?
What are the political reactions to the Telstra outage?

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