Australia election 2025 live: Wong dismisses Dutton over ‘captain obvious’ suggestions for tariff response; Keating says US policy ‘effective death knell of Nato’

Follow today’s news liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastTrump says tariffs to be placed on pharmaceuticalsTrump says he’ll be putting in place reciprocal tariffs on pharmaceuticals, at half the rate “they have been charging us”.Australia … they’re wonderful people, and wonderful everything, but they ban American beef. Yet we imported $3bn of Australian beef from them just last year alone. They won’t take any of our beef. They don’t want it because they don’t want it to affect their farmers and, you know, I don’t blame them but we’re doing the same thing, right now starting at midnight tonight, I would say. Continue reading...

Australia election 2025 live: Wong dismisses Dutton over ‘captain obvious’ suggestions for tariff response; Keating says US policy ‘effective death knell of Nato’

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Trump says tariffs to be placed on pharmaceuticals

Trump says he’ll be putting in place reciprocal tariffs on pharmaceuticals, at half the rate “they have been charging us”.

Australia … they’re wonderful people, and wonderful everything, but they ban American beef. Yet we imported $3bn of Australian beef from them just last year alone. They won’t take any of our beef. They don’t want it because they don’t want it to affect their farmers and, you know, I don’t blame them but we’re doing the same thing, right now starting at midnight tonight, I would say. Continue reading...