Biden to visit Melbourne’s Boeing site

“It has an impact in every corner of the world”.

Biden, who made the comments during a speech at a Boeing factory he is visiting in Australia, said while the details and motive behind the killings remain unclear, the public owes police officers in general a debt of gratitude for putting their lives on the line.

“We all have reasons to be in this fight”, he said.

He said the potential breakthroughs offered by supercomputing could hopefully lead to a future where cancer treatment was a simple as tackling diseases such as mumps or measles.

Mr Biden said the loss of his son Beau – who was 46 – had brought home the urgency of sharing as much information as possible in what can quickly become precious time.

“It seems to me you are the single more important cog in the wheel as to whether or not we can change the dynamic in the region”, Biden said.

US Vice President Joe Biden (C) with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (C, background) and Health Minister Susan Ley (R) are shown one of the research labs by Associate Professor Sherene Loi (L) during a tour of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Melbourne on July 17, 2016.

US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday described the shooting deaths of three police officers in the Louisiana capital Baton Rouge as a “despicable act” that was an attack on the American way of life.

While Biden and his granddaughters were plied with Carlton gear, Cox said he also presented the VP with a jumper with his name on it and Cox’s number.

Both Mr Turnbull and US President Barak Obama have expressed hope that the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, signed in February by 12 countries including Australia, Japan and the US, will be ratified despite opposition from presidential hopefuls Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. The rest of the division found brief respite in Melbourne after the battle.

He later sat in the stands wth Collingwood ruckman and American recruit Mason Cox, along with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, a former West Coast board member.

US Vice-President Joe Biden has praised what he calls irrepressible ties of “optimism” linking Australia and America.