Trump’s menace to double tariffs for nations together with Australia ‘dangerous coverage’, says shadow commerce minister
The shadow commerce minister, Kevin Hogan, says Donald Trump’s menace that nations together with Australia may face even increased tariffs from the US is “dangerous coverage”.
Trump stated on Tuesday morning he plans a brand new tariff that might be “someplace within the 15 to twenty% vary”.
Hogan stated Anthony Albanese ought to search a gathering with the US president to push again on behalf of Australia.
If Trump is seeking to put tariffs increased, I believe that’s damaging not solely to the US shopper, which suggests their inflation fee will go up, nevertheless it has an actual hazard to gradual world development.
We’ve seen a little bit of it, however this might intensify it, virtually like a worldwide commerce conflict. Particularly a rustic like China, in the event that they had been to retaliate to those increased tariffs, what would that imply? That may imply slower world development.
Hogan stated as a lot as $650bn value of Australian exports might be put in danger from an additional breakdown in commerce guidelines.
[It] accentuates in my perception the significance that our prime minister safe a face-to-face assembly.
He has to place a really robust sovereign case to America that their coverage is dangerous … this must be put very forcefully and has to occur.
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Benita Kolovos
150 offences excluded from Victoria’s second strike rule
Following from our final put up …
Kilkenny says 150 offences will likely be excluded from the second strike rule, akin to “low- stage drug possession and petty crimes that we all know are sometimes pushed by homelessness or different types of drawback”.
We all know from expertise up to now that susceptible cohorts had been caught up in numerous adjustments. So we’re ensuring we’re taking a way more nuanced strategy.
The premier, Jacinta Allan, says the bail adjustments strike the correct stability and the federal government will take an identical strategy once they introduce long-awaited protest legal guidelines to parliament. She says:
That is all about having that target group security coming first right here in Victoria. Repeat severe offending is what we’re centered on right here right this moment … We’re [also] centered on strengthening police powers to crack down on that excessive behaviour at protests.
Allan says the protest legal guidelines are nonetheless being labored by however will embrace outlawing “face masks, attachment units and the show of terror symbols and indicators”:
It’s not protest that’s the problem right here. It’s shameful extremist behaviour, and that’s what we’re zeroing in on, bringing new legal guidelines and toughening powers for police.
Benita Kolovos
Victoria’s legal professional basic assured susceptible individuals received’t be caught in proposed bail regulation adjustments
Victoria’s legal professional basic, Sonya Kilkenny, says she is assured susceptible individuals is not going to be caught up within the proposed bail regulation adjustments she will likely be introducing to parliament right this moment.
As we brought to you earlier, the Victorian authorities has introduced additional adjustments to the state’s bail legal guidelines that may see individuals charged with six severe offences akin to aggravated housebreaking, carjacking and armed theft whereas on bail will likely be topic to the nation’s “hardest bail check”.
Kilkenny says the check will see individuals “denied bail until they will show to the court docket that there’s a excessive diploma of chance that they won’t commit” additional offences.
A brand new “second strike” rule can be proposed within the invoice, which can make it tougher for individuals to get bail if they’re accused of committing one other indictable offence whereas already on bail.
This can apply to expenses akin to theft, assault, intercourse offences and severe drug offences. Kilkenny says:
They’ll face a more durable, stricter bail check, a check that reverses the onus and requires the authorised individual to point out to the court docket there are compelling the explanation why bail shouldn’t be denied. In an effort to make sure that we aren’t scooping up susceptible cohorts, there will likely be some carve-outs of those indictable offences.
Natasha Could
Butler clarifies maths round 90% bulk-billing promise
The well being minister, Mark Butler, has shed some new mild round how the federal government’s bulk-billing figures sq. with different reviews you will have examine GPs being reluctant to take up their supply.
In February Butler introduced the federal government’s $8.5bn funding would imply 9 out of 10 GP visits will likely be bulk billed by 2030, however on the similar time Butler has confirmed a division transient offered to the federal government after the election confirmed virtually 1 / 4 of clinics received’t be part of this system.
Butler has cleared up how the division’s maths works on final night time’s ABC 7.30 program:
I stated that about three-quarters of basic practices we had been assured would go to full bulk billing as a result of it could be of their monetary pursuits in addition to within the pursuits of their sufferers. The opposite quarter, we expect, will most likely proceed to combine invoice, in order that they’ll bulk invoice their pensioners, the children who come by their door.
On common, a observe that doesn’t absolutely bulk invoice remains to be bulk billing about 70% of their consults. Three-quarters at 100%, 1 / 4 at about 70% will get us to 90% over the course of the approaching years.
Queensland police union says it’s secured ‘largest ever’ pay rise to the state’s police service
Leaving federal politics for a second, the overwhelming majority of Queensland police will obtain bonuses of $8,000, with cops in rural and regional areas receiving hundreds extra, beneath a deal signed on Monday night time.
Police may also obtain a rise in base pay of not less than 8% over the following three years.
Union chief Shane Prior described the settlement because the “largest ever pay deal for Queensland Police in its historical past”, with enhancements to wages and circumstances to price $562m.
The state authorities has additionally agreed to adjustments to the operate of the division, in response to stress from the union.
The state authorities is at present negotiating with nurses and academics unions; each unions have balloted members for industrial motion.
Requested if the retention bonus would function a precedent for different EBAs, the premier, David Crisafulli, stated the police pay was promised earlier than the election.
We aren’t going to have the ability to do the issues that now we have to with regards to coping with regulation and order until now we have a correctly resourced police service, however one which additionally feels revered and valued. And that’s why this was focused. We spoke about it earlier than the election, and we’ve delivered it after.
Dave Sharma says Israel should guarantee help goes into Gaza
Earlier this morning, Liberal senator Dave Sharma, a former ambassador to Israel, informed the ABC that reviews of malnutrition in Gaza are credible.
He additionally stated Israel should guarantee meals and humanitarian help goes into Gaza, to enhance its worldwide status.
I believe the proof is fairly overwhelming that there’s a excessive, , there’s malnutrition, there’s shortages of meals …
Elements of the Israeli authorities would say, nicely, Hamas is utilizing this as a kind of propaganda software, however I believe the best way to cease that getting used as a propaganda software is to guarantee that there isn’t any meals insecurity in Gaza, to guarantee that the inhabitants is fed, to guarantee that Hamas can’t use this to painting you as merciless or uncaring or insensitive.
His feedback, like these from Paterson, are totally different to a few of the extra hardline statements their colleagues like Tehan and Money.
Israel harming its ‘worldwide standing’ by delaying help to Gaza, says Paterson
Paterson says Israel is harming its personal worldwide standing by the delays in offering important meals and humanitarian help for Gaza.
He tells Sky Information that the world is seeing a “very severe, very dire” humanitarian scenario, and that harmless civilians “shouldn’t be made to be punished” for Hamas’s crimes.
Though I’m a powerful supporter of Israel, and I strongly assist the marketing campaign to disband Hamas and free the 50 hostages, or our bodies of deceased hostages that Hamas remains to be holding, I additionally settle for because the navy energy within the area which has efficient management of Gaza, Israel does have a duty to make sure that the civilian inhabitants is fed, and they should do all affordable steps to guarantee that’s the case.
And it’s doing hurt, in my judgment, [to] Israel’s worldwide standing that up to now in latest months, [they] haven’t been ready to do this.
Paterson’s language right this moment is a good bit stronger than his colleague Dan Tehan’s on RN Breakfast yesterday, who defended Israel’s actions in Gaza and questioned whether or not Israel is breaching worldwide humanitarian regulation as the federal government has stated.
Current statements by shadow international affairs minister, Michaelia Money, have additionally prompt that any “ethical outrage” needs to be positioned on Hamas.
James Paterson ‘involved’ Trump retains taking Australia without warning on tariffs
The shadow finance minister, James Paterson, says any new tariffs from the US could be “enormously disappointing”, however is “involved” the Trump administration retains taking the federal government without warning on tariffs.
Paterson tells Sky Information there’s rising proof that there’s a “downside” within the bilateral relationship between Australia and the US.
The Trump administration is threatening tariffs of 15 to twenty% for nations – far increased than the present 10% baseline tariff that has been positioned on Australia.
Paterson says Anthony Albanese ought to have sat down for a face-to-face assembly with Trump by now.
I’m involved by the best way wherein the Australian authorities frequently appears to be shocked by these developments …
I completely concede that is an unconventional US administration that adjustments its coverage, typically at brief discover, however I believe there’s sufficient proof now within the public realm that we do have an issue within the bilateral relationship between Australia and the USA.
Trump’s menace to double tariffs for nations together with Australia ‘dangerous coverage’, says shadow commerce minister
The shadow commerce minister, Kevin Hogan, says Donald Trump’s menace that nations together with Australia may face even increased tariffs from the US is “dangerous coverage”.
Trump stated on Tuesday morning he plans a brand new tariff that might be “someplace within the 15 to twenty% vary”.
Hogan stated Anthony Albanese ought to search a gathering with the US president to push again on behalf of Australia.
If Trump is seeking to put tariffs increased, I believe that’s damaging not solely to the US shopper, which suggests their inflation fee will go up, nevertheless it has an actual hazard to gradual world development.
We’ve seen a little bit of it, however this might intensify it, virtually like a worldwide commerce conflict. Particularly a rustic like China, in the event that they had been to retaliate to those increased tariffs, what would that imply? That may imply slower world development.
Hogan stated as a lot as $650bn value of Australian exports might be put in danger from an additional breakdown in commerce guidelines.
[It] accentuates in my perception the significance that our prime minister safe a face-to-face assembly.
He has to place a really robust sovereign case to America that their coverage is dangerous … this must be put very forcefully and has to occur.
Graham Readfearn
CSIRO report says renewables with storage nonetheless most cost-effective energy alternative
The CSIRO has launched a closing model of its annual report wanting on the relative prices of electrical energy era applied sciences, with renewables backed with storage remaining the most cost effective choices for the grid.
The GenCost report has modified little from the draft version that was released in December in the midst of the Coalition’s pre-election push for nuclear vitality.
The applied sciences with the bottom price vary are nonetheless wind and photo voltaic, the report says, even after the prices of integrating them into the grid are included. These prices embrace elements such because the constructing of transmission traces and the necessity to “agency” renewables with vitality storage akin to batteries.
The following most cost-effective applied sciences are black coal and gasoline and photo voltaic thermal, adopted by large-scale nuclear reactors and at last small modular nuclear reactors (SMR), which theoretically supply the costliest types of energy within the report.
We are saying theoretically as a result of industrial variations of the know-how are nonetheless unavailable. The GenCost report factored in prices from a Canadian nation-building project in Ontario the place 4 SMRs are being deliberate. These prices had been just like the assumed prices within the draft report.
The capital prices for many applied sciences has gone up, the report says. Financing and building prices for many applied sciences have gone up: gasoline generators prices are forecast to rise; and the report added the price of distant work camps to the general prices of constructing windfarms.
Tariff scenario in a ‘state of flux’: assistant treasurer
“It’s not stunning” says Daniel Mulino, that Trump is suggesting tariff charges may change globally.
Donald Trump has prompt that tariffs may enhance globally, reaching 15 to twenty% – and will imply Australia’s baseline tariff of 10% is doubled.
Talking to Sky Information a bit of earlier, Mulino says the tariff scenario has been altering and is in “a state of flux”, however the authorities remains to be partaking with the US administration.
I believe this has been a scenario that’s been in a state of flux for a while now.
The scenario in relation to what the US is suggesting they’re going to impose on different nations globally, not simply in relation to Australia, has been altering over the previous few weeks and months. So it’s not stunning that there’d be a press release that might counsel a change. The president’s been wanting to regulate his bargaining place in a spread of how alongside the best way.
A timeline of Trump’s tariffs threats
This isn’t the primary time Donald Trump has threatened increased blanket tariffs on nations, flagging tariffs of 15 to twenty% (the identical fee he introduced in Scotland this morning) on 10 July.
At the moment, he threatened to impose a 35% tariff on Canada that might come into impact on 1 August.
Trump stated in an interview with on 10 July NBC that nations would obtain letters with increased charges.
“We’re simply going to say the entire remaining nations are going to pay, whether or not it’s 20% or 15%. We’ll work that out now,” Trump was quoted as saying by the community.
On 24 July, Trump additionally stated he wouldn’t go under a 15% tariff fee, at an AI summit in Washington.
We’ll have a straight, easy tariff of wherever between 15% and 50% … A few – now we have 50 as a result of we haven’t been getting together with these nations too nicely.
Authorities to set emissions discount goal ‘in the end’, says Butler
A 2035 emissions discount goal will likely be set “in the end”, says Mark Butler, telling ABC Information Breakfast the federal government has a “severe plan” to sort out local weather change.
Earlier this month, the worldwide court docket of justice dominated that nations should forestall hurt to the local weather system and that failing to take action may consequence of their having to pay compensation.
Butler says Australia is on monitor to fulfill its present local weather targets and “engages deeply” with Pacific Island neighbours.
We are going to decide a few goal for 2035 in the end. We interact deeply with our Pacific Island neighbours and mates as a result of for them that is an existential menace and so they need greater nations like Australia doing the correct factor. They recognise there’s a decade of inaction beneath the final authorities. We put in place a severe plan.
Butler says the federal government is giving clear vitality traders confidence, whereas the opposition remains to be going through “division and chaos”.
On the opposite aspect of politics, you’ve obtained division and chaos but once more. That’s led by Barnaby Joyce. Final night time we noticed a Senate vote the place some Coalition senators voted with Pauline Hanson and a few voted in opposition to her and the huge bulk didn’t come into the chamber by hook or by crook.
Australia will proceed to advocate for removing of US tariffs, commerce minister says
The federal government says its place on US tariffs is “unchanged” and can proceed to foyer the US to drop them.
In a press release, a spokesperson for the commerce minister, Don Farrell, stated:
Our place is unchanged – any tariffs on Australian good are unjustified and an act of financial self-harm.
We are going to proceed to interact in any respect ranges to advocate for the removing of all tariffs, according to our free commerce settlement with the USA.
Earlier, senior authorities minister Mark Butler stated the federal government remains to be making an attempt to get a “sense” of what the US administration is planning.
The opposition has been essential of the prime minister for not but having met with Donald Trump since his election to workplace.
Ruston quizzed about Hanson’s internet zero vote
Final night time within the Senate chamber, Pauline Hanson tried to wedge the Coalition by placing a movement ahead to scrap Australia’s internet zero by 2050 emissions coverage.
It was overwhelmingly voted down, however the One Nation senators had been joined by Coalition senators, Matt Canavan and Alex Antic, and United Australia occasion senator Ralph Babet, totalling seven who voted in favour.
Some within the Coalition voted no whereas others abstained.
RN Breakfast host, Sally Sara, asks Ruston why she wasn’t there for the vote.
Ruston says she was on depart yesterday for a shadow cupboard assembly, however says the Coalition has dedicated to going by a course of to assessment all its vitality insurance policies.
I believe all of us respect the very fact that there’s a broad vary of views in our occasion room on this specific problem. However the one factor that I’ll at all times do is respect all of these views. I wish to hear the entire views of my colleagues, after which we’ll undergo a respectful course of and give you a united coverage on the finish of it.
Shadow well being minister criticises Labor for bulk-billing charges and residential care bundle delay
Following Butler into the RN Breakfast studio is Anne Ruston, the shadow well being minister, who has referred to as Anthony Albanese a “snake oil salesman” on GP bulk-billing charges.
You may keep in mind the nicely worn line from the federal government that “all you want is your Medicare card” through the election marketing campaign (with a Medicare card in hand), however Ruston says the bulk-billing figures present there are numerous Australians who’re nonetheless pulling out the bank card to pay a big hole payment.
Bulk-billing charges have plummeted by 11%. That’s 1.5 million Australians final yr selected to not see their physician as a result of they stated they merely couldn’t afford to.
The opposition has additionally criticised the federal government for delaying the discharge of 80,000 residence care packages into the aged care system.
The federal government made a promise within the election marketing campaign that they had been going to launch 80,000 new residence care packages on 1 July. Then, solely minutes into their subsequent time period, they really took these 80,000 packages off the desk, and we now consider that they might be launched someday on the finish of the yr.
Ruston says 87,000 older Australians have been assessed as needing the packages however aren’t receiving them.
The Coalition will assist a movement from unbiased David Pocock to determine an inquiry into the delay. You possibly can learn extra about that from my colleague Tom McIlroy right here:
Australia making an attempt to ‘prosecute our curiosity’ on any tariffs on pharmaceutical exports to US: Butler
The commerce scenario is “shifting round a bit” says Mark Butler, because the US president, Donald Trump, introduced within the final couple of hours there might be new tariffs of as much as 15 or 20%.
Butler says he’s solely seen the information on his telephone, and the federal government is making an attempt to “guarantee that now we have a way of what the US administration is planning” whereas pushing a case for the tariffs to be eliminated completely.
Our officers are working onerous to get a way precisely of the character and the timing of any tariffs on pharmaceutical exports, which, as your listeners would know, is a selected sector or business that the US administration has been centered on …
We recognise this can be a very important problem, together with to pharmaceutical exports from Australia to the US, which by and enormous are blood and plasma merchandise. We’re doing every part we are able to to prosecute our curiosity as Australians.
Butler requested whether or not Australia ought to recognise a Palestinian state now
There are rising requires Australia to recognise a Palestinian state now, together with by authorities MP Ed Husic, who penned an op-ed for Guardian Australia yesterday.
Mark Butler is continuous his media rounds, and is requested on ABC RN Breakfast whether or not he helps Husic’s name.
Butler reiterates the international affairs minister Penny Wong’s feedback that recognition would kind a part of the peace course of, fairly than be labored by on the finish of that peace course of, however he says there are a variety of points the federal government wants to contemplate.
The prime minister over the weekend stated that there clearly had been quite a lot of points that we might be contemplating as a authorities on the query of recognition. For instance, how do you be sure that Hamas performs no function in a Palestinian state? What are the ensures for Israeli safety? But additionally, what’s the construction of the state that we might be recognising? So we’ll try this at an applicable time.
Albanese authorities to increase subsidy program for renewable vitality initiatives
The federal government will increase its subsidy program for renewable vitality initiatives, which it says will assist energy hundreds of thousands of properties.
Chris Bowen, the vitality minister, will give a speech later right this moment, saying that the capability funding scheme (CIS) will increase, to underwrite 3 gigawatts of era and underwrite 5 gigawatts of dispatchable capability or storage.
It’s proper that the sunniest and windiest continent stays on the forefront of photo voltaic and wind innovation – and this backing reveals the federal government intends for it to remain that approach.
Bowen says the most recent Gencost report, ready by the CSIRO and the Australian Vitality Market Operator, reveals firmed renewables are the bottom price type of new vitality era.
The report says the price of photo voltaic fell by 8% and the price of batteries fell by 20% final yr.
Bowen says:
Now round midway by the CIS, and with the price of deploying photo voltaic and batteries declining sooner than anticipated, now we have a chance to supercharge our transition.
