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Adelaide has won the race to host the first LIV Golf tournament in Australia, with international stars including Cameron Smith teeing up at The Grange GC in April next year.

The Adelaide course has been chosen by the Greg Norman-led breakaway league to host the three-day tournament from April 21-23 as part of a 14-stop global schedule.

Norman said in a statement there was "massive potential" for Australia to play a role in the Saudi-backed league which also features major winners Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia.

The US PGA Tour does not play top-tier tournaments in Australia, with big names only lured by the Presidents Cup which was last contested in Melbourne in 2019.

"Passion for sport is at the core of Australian culture, and LIV Golf is proud to bring its global league to a country deserving of the world's top competition," said Norman, LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner.

"This is an opportunity to grow the game with generations of Australians while connecting them with star players like Cameron Smith who are building a new platform for golf around the globe.

"There is massive potential for Australia to play a bigger role in this great sport, and I couldn't be more excited to showcase Adelaide for our league's debut year."

The Grange has hosted major professional events including the West Lakes Classic, where Norman claimed his first professional victory in 1976.

The Victorian government reportedly knocked back an approach from LIV, preferring to side with the PGA in the golfing battleground.

British Open champion Smith, fellow LIV rebel Marc Leishman, as well as Adam Scott and Cameron Davis will return home this month for a series of tournaments starting with the Australian PGA in Brisbane.

The event is co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour (formerly European tour) and LIV defectors are allowed to play.

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Anticipation is building for a potential meeting between the leaders of Australia and China as they prepare to touch down in Indonesia.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is attending the G20 in Bali following a weekend in Phnom Penh for the East Asia and ASEAN summits.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has already confirmed a meeting in Bali with United States President Joe Biden.

But the question remains as to whether Mr Xi and Mr Albanese will meet.

If it goes ahead, it will be the first time in six years leaders of Australia and China have had a formal meeting.

Trade Minister Don Farrell said Australia had learnt from "bitter experience" for the need to diversify and while the relationship with China should continue, the nation needed to rely on it less.

"What that means is finding new markets for our goods, and ensuring that we don't find ourselves in a situation where we were in a relationship with only one purchaser," he told ABC radio on Monday.

Senator Farrell said the prime minister remained "hopeful" of securing a face-to-face meeting with President Xi, and said Beijing would need to lift the trade sanctions imposed for the relationship between the two countries to normalise.

On Australia's challenge of those bans at the World Trade Organisation, Senator Farrell said the government would tell the Chinese that Canberra would prefer to settle trade disputes through discussion, rather than arbitration.

On Sunday, the final day of the Cambodian summit, the prime minister had a 40-minute catch-up with Mr Biden.

The pair discussed security deals, the climate and engagement with the Pacific.

But Mr Albanese would not reveal if the president gave him any clues about what he will discuss with Mr Xi.

"President Biden can speak for himself and I'll speak for myself on the terms in which Australia engages," he told reporters in Phnom Penh

"(Australia) will engage constructively in dialogue with the countries that wish to engage with us.

"I've said that we should co-operate with China where we can and that's what we're doing."

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has invited Mr Albanese to give a key note speech at the B20 meeting which brings together business and political leaders from the world's strongest economies.

Global recovery from the pandemic and taming inflation impacting economies will be key themes of his speech.

Mr Albanese will make a pitch to world leaders to work together in all nations' interests by reducing tariff obstructions and increasing trade agreements.

"We can achieve far more together than we ever will alone," he will say.

"Recovering stronger depends on recovering together."

Tackling climate change will also feature heavily during the summit.

The prime minister will urge governments and businesses to invest in clean energy sources and spruik Australia's role in the global transition to renewables.

"We know Australia can be a renewable energy superpower and we are working to grow our clean energy export industry," he will say.

"We are committed to co-operating with other nations to help reduce their emissions, grow their economies and improve living standards."

Leaders will also discuss global food insecurity, worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as the global response to pandemics.

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Australia is planning a two-pronged approach to trade by reducing the nation's dependence on China, and advocating for the removal of $20 billion sanctions through a face-to-face meeting with Xi Jinping.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will land in Bali on Monday evening to attend the G20 leaders' summit following a weekend in Phnom Penh for the East Asia and ASEAN summits.

If the meeting with Mr Xi goes ahead, it will be the first time in six years leaders of the two countries got together.

Mr Xi has already confirmed a meeting in Bali with United States President Joe Biden.

In a keynote speech ahead of the summit on Monday, Trade Minister Don Farrell said Australia needed to diversify its trade relationships, with the geostrategic case for a European Union free trade deal having strengthened.

"Increasingly, economic policy and national security policy are intertwined - a resilient Australian economy underpins national security," he told the RMIT APEC Study Centre.

"It is no longer possible, if it ever was, to insulate our trade policy from geopolitics."

Senator Farrell indicated Mr Albanese would tell the Chinese president the removal of $20 billion in trade barriers would be crucial for the relationship between Canberra and Beijing returning back to normal.

The minister said while Chinese duties on barley and wine were being formally challenged through the World Trade Organisation system, Australia was open to discussing "possible off-ramps" to get a mutually agreed solution.

On Sunday, the final day of the Cambodian summit, the prime minister had a 40-minute catch-up with Mr Biden.

The pair discussed security deals, the climate and engagement with the Pacific.

But Mr Albanese would not reveal if the president gave him any clues about what he will discuss with Mr Xi.

"President Biden can speak for himself and I'll speak for myself on the terms in which Australia engages," he told reporters in Phnom Penh

"(Australia) will engage constructively in dialogue with the countries that wish to engage with us.

"I've said that we should co-operate with China where we can and that's what we're doing."

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has invited Mr Albanese to give a key note speech at the B20 meeting which brings together business and political leaders from the world's strongest economies.

Global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and taming inflation impacting economies will be key themes of his speech.

Mr Albanese will make a pitch to world leaders to work together in all nations' interests by reducing tariff obstructions and increasing trade agreements.

"We can achieve far more together than we ever will alone," he will say.

"Recovering stronger depends on recovering together."

Tackling climate change will also feature heavily during the summit.

The prime minister will urge governments and businesses to invest in clean energy sources and spruik Australia's role in the global transition to renewables.

"We know Australia can be a renewable energy superpower and we are working to grow our clean energy export industry," he will say.

"We are committed to co-operating with other nations to help reduce their emissions, grow their economies and improve living standards."

Leaders will also discuss global food insecurity, worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as the global response to pandemics.

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