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 might face even greater tariffs from the US is “dangerous coverage”.
Trump stated on Tuesday morning he plans a brand new tariff that could possibly 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 trying to put tariffs greater, I feel that’s damaging not solely to the US shopper, which suggests their inflation charge will go up, however it has an actual hazard to sluggish world development.
We’ve seen a little bit of it, however this might intensify it, nearly like a worldwide commerce conflict. Particularly a rustic like China, in the event that they had been to retaliate to those greater tariffs, what would that imply? That may imply slower world development.
Hogan stated as a lot as $650bn value of Australian exports could possibly be put in danger from an extra 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.
Key occasions
Canavan says Ley can take her time on web zero coverage as a result of Coalition is ‘irrelevant proper now’
Matt Canavan, one of many loudest local weather motion critics within the Coalition, says the Coalition is “irrelevant” proper now because it continues to debate its place on web zero.
The senator from Queensland is at the moment endeavor a overview of the emissions-reduction coverage for the Nationals, however has pushed laborious from the begin to ditch the 2050 goal.
Requested whether or not Sussan Ley wanted to come back out and state her place on web zero (she’s stated she’ll permit a committee led by shadow vitality minister Dan Tehan to overview the coverage), he stated there’s “no specific rush” for her to take action.
We’re irrelevant proper now, who cares what it seems [like] proper now. Now we have received to get the outcomes. That’s what’s necessary. It doesn’t should be neat or tidy or fairly, it must be efficient.
Canavan and fellow conservative Liberal senator Alex Antic voted in favour of Pauline Hanson’s movement on repealing web zero within the Senate final night time.
He stated that when Barnaby Joyce instructed him about his non-public member’s invoice to repeal web zero he thought, “Jeez why didn’t I take into consideration that, and I feel Pauline had the identical view.”
Benita Kolovos
150 offences excluded from Victoria’s second strike rule
Following from our final submit …
Kilkenny says 150 offences can be excluded from the second strike rule, resembling “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 previously that weak cohorts had been caught up in varied adjustments. So we’re ensuring we’re taking a way more nuanced strategy.
The premier, Jacinta Allan, says the bail adjustments strike the best steadiness 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 critical offending is what we’re centered on right here at this time … 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 means of however will embody outlawing “face masks, attachment gadgets and the show of terror symbols and indicators”:
It’s not protest that’s the difficulty 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 normal assured weak individuals received’t be caught in proposed bail legislation adjustments
Victoria’s legal professional normal, Sonya Kilkenny, says she is assured weak individuals won’t be caught up within the proposed bail legislation adjustments she can be introducing to parliament at this time.
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 critical offences resembling aggravated housebreaking, carjacking and armed theft whereas on bail can be topic to the nation’s “hardest bail check”.
Kilkenny says the check will see individuals “denied bail except 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 also be proposed within the invoice, which is able to make it more durable for individuals to get bail if they’re accused of committing one other indictable offence whereas already on bail.
This may apply to prices resembling theft, assault, intercourse offences and critical drug offences. Kilkenny says:
They’ll face a harder, stricter bail check, a check that reverses the onus and requires the permitted particular person to point out to the court docket there are compelling the reason why bail shouldn’t be denied. With a purpose to be certain that we aren’t scooping up weak cohorts, there can be some carve-outs of those indictable offences.
Natasha Might
Butler clarifies maths round 90% bulk-billing promise
The well being minister, Mark Butler, has shed some new gentle round how the federal government’s bulk-billing figures sq. with different experiences you could have examine GPs being reluctant to take up their provide.
In February Butler introduced the federal government’s $8.5bn funding would imply 9 out of 10 GP visits can be bulk billed by 2030, however on the identical time Butler has confirmed a division transient supplied to the federal government after the election confirmed nearly 1 / 4 of clinics received’t be a 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 normal 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 in all probability proceed to combine invoice, in order that they’ll bulk invoice their pensioners, the children who come by means of their door.
On common, a observe that doesn’t absolutely bulk invoice continues 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 1000’s extra, beneath a deal signed on Monday night time.
Police will even obtain a rise in base pay of no 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 situations to price $562m.
The state authorities has additionally agreed to adjustments to the perform of the division, in response to stress from the union.
The state authorities is at the moment 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 we now have to relating to coping with legislation and order except we now 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, instructed the ABC that experiences of malnutrition in Gaza are credible.
He additionally stated Israel should guarantee meals and humanitarian help goes into Gaza, to enhance its worldwide fame.
I feel 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, properly, Hamas is utilizing this as a type of propaganda instrument, however I feel the way in which to cease that getting used as a propaganda instrument is to be sure that there isn’t a meals insecurity in Gaza, to be sure that the inhabitants is fed, to be sure that Hamas can’t use this to painting you as merciless or uncaring or insensitive.
His feedback, like these from Paterson, are completely different to among 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 critical, very dire” humanitarian state of affairs, and that harmless civilians “shouldn’t be made to be punished” for Hamas’s crimes.
Though I’m a robust supporter of Israel, and I strongly help the marketing campaign to disband Hamas and free the 50 hostages, or our bodies of deceased hostages that Hamas continues to be holding, I additionally settle for because the army energy within the area which has efficient management of Gaza, Israel does have a accountability to make sure that the civilian inhabitants is fed, and they should do all cheap steps to be sure that’s the case.
And it’s doing hurt, in my judgment, [to] Israel’s worldwide standing that to this point in latest months, [they] haven’t been in a position to do this.
Paterson’s language at this time 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 legislation as the federal government has stated.
Latest statements by shadow overseas affairs minister, Michaelia Money, have additionally instructed that any “ethical outrage” needs to be positioned on Hamas.
James Paterson ‘involved’ Trump retains taking Australia abruptly 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 abruptly 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 greater 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 way in which by which the Australian authorities frequently appears to be stunned by these developments …
I completely concede that is an unconventional US administration that adjustments its coverage, typically at quick discover, however I feel there’s sufficient proof now within the public realm that we do have an issue within the bilateral relationship between Australia and america.
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 might face even greater tariffs from the US is “dangerous coverage”.
Trump stated on Tuesday morning he plans a brand new tariff that could possibly 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 trying to put tariffs greater, I feel that’s damaging not solely to the US shopper, which suggests their inflation charge will go up, however it has an actual hazard to sluggish world development.
We’ve seen a little bit of it, however this might intensify it, nearly like a worldwide commerce conflict. Particularly a rustic like China, in the event that they had been to retaliate to those greater tariffs, what would that imply? That may imply slower world development.
Hogan stated as a lot as $650bn value of Australian exports could possibly be put in danger from an extra 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 least expensive energy selection
The CSIRO has launched a last model of its annual report wanting on the relative prices of electrical energy era applied sciences, with renewables backed with storage remaining the most affordable choices for the grid.
The GenCost report has modified little from the draft version that was released in December in the course 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 embody components such because the constructing of transmission traces and the necessity to “agency” renewables with vitality storage resembling batteries.
The subsequent least expensive applied sciences are black coal and fuel and photo voltaic thermal, adopted by large-scale nuclear reactors and at last small modular nuclear reactors (SMR), which theoretically provide the most costly types of energy within the report.
We are saying theoretically as a result of business 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 much like the assumed prices within the draft report.
The capital prices for many applied sciences has gone up, the report says. Financing and development prices for many applied sciences have gone up: fuel generators prices are forecast to rise; and the report added the price of distant work camps to the general prices of constructing windfarms.
Tariff state of affairs in a ‘state of flux’: assistant treasurer
“It’s not shocking” says Daniel Mulino, that Trump is suggesting tariff charges might change globally.
Donald Trump has instructed that tariffs might improve globally, reaching 15 to twenty% – and will imply Australia’s baseline tariff of 10% is doubled.
Chatting with Sky Information a bit earlier, Mulino says the tariff state of affairs has been altering and is in “a state of flux”, however the authorities continues to be partaking with the US administration.
I feel this has been a state of affairs that’s been in a state of flux for a while now.
The state of affairs 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 shocking that there’d be a press release that may recommend a change. The president’s been wanting to regulate his bargaining place in a variety of how alongside the way in which.
A timeline of Trump’s tariffs threats
This isn’t the primary time Donald Trump has threatened greater blanket tariffs on nations, flagging tariffs of 15 to twenty% (the identical charge he introduced in Scotland this morning) on 10 July.
At the moment, he threatened to impose a 35% tariff on Canada that may come into impact on 1 August.
Trump stated in an interview with on 10 July NBC that nations would obtain letters with greater charges.
“We’re simply going to say all the 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 charge, at an AI summit in Washington.
We’ll have a straight, easy tariff of anyplace between 15% and 50% … A few – we now have 50 as a result of we haven’t been getting together with these nations too properly.
Authorities to set emissions discount goal ‘sooner or later’, says Butler
A 2035 emissions discount goal can be set “sooner or later”, says Mark Butler, telling ABC Information Breakfast the federal government has a “critical plan” to deal with local weather change.
Earlier this month, the worldwide court docket of justice dominated that nations should stop hurt to the local weather system and that failing to take action might outcome 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 couple of goal for 2035 sooner or later. We have interaction deeply with our Pacific Island neighbours and buddies as a result of for them that is an existential menace and so they need larger nations like Australia doing the best factor. They recognise there’s a decade of inaction beneath the final authorities. We put in place a critical plan.
Butler says the federal government is giving clear vitality traders confidence, whereas the opposition continues to be going through “division and chaos”.
On the opposite aspect of politics, you’ve received 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 towards her and the huge bulk didn’t come into the chamber someway.
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 have interaction in any respect ranges to advocate for the removing of all tariffs, according to our free commerce settlement with america.
Earlier, senior authorities minister Mark Butler stated the federal government continues to be making an attempt to get a “sense” of what the US administration is planning.
The opposition has been crucial of the prime minister for not but having met with Donald Trump since his election to workplace.
Ruston quizzed about Hanson’s web 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 web 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 celebration 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 go away yesterday for a shadow cupboard assembly, however says the Coalition has dedicated to going by means of a course of to overview all its vitality insurance policies.
I feel all of us respect the very fact that there’s a broad vary of views in our celebration room on this specific challenge. However the one factor that I’ll all the time do is respect all of these views. I wish to hear all the 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 known as Anthony Albanese a “snake oil salesman” on GP bulk-billing charges.
You may keep in mind the properly worn line from the federal government that “all you want is your Medicare card” in the course of the election marketing campaign (with a Medicare card in hand), however Ruston says the bulk-billing figures present there are lots of Australians who’re nonetheless pulling out the bank card to pay a big hole charge.
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 imagine that they could 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 help a movement from unbiased David Pocock to determine an inquiry into the delay. You may 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 state of affairs is “shifting round a bit” says Mark Butler, because the US president, Donald Trump, introduced within the final couple of hours there could possibly be new tariffs of as much as 15 or 20%.
Butler says he’s solely seen the information on his cellphone, and the federal government is making an attempt to “be sure that we now have a way of what the US administration is planning” whereas pushing a case for the tariffs to be eliminated solely.
Our officers are working laborious 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 specific sector or trade that the US administration has been centered on …
We recognise it is a very vital problem, together with to pharmaceutical exports from Australia to the US, which by and huge 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 overseas affairs minister Penny Wong’s feedback that recognition would type a part of the peace course of, somewhat than be labored by means of 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 plenty of points that we’d be contemplating as a authorities on the query of recognition. For instance, how do you be certain 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’d be recognising? So we’ll do this at an applicable time.
Albanese authorities to increase subsidy program for renewable vitality tasks
The federal government will increase its subsidy program for renewable vitality tasks, which it says will assist energy tens of millions of houses.
Chris Bowen, the vitality minister, will give a speech later at this time, asserting 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 exhibits the federal government intends for it to remain that approach.
Bowen says the newest Gencost report, ready by the CSIRO and the Australian Vitality Market Operator, exhibits 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 means of the CIS, and with the price of deploying photo voltaic and batteries declining sooner than anticipated, we now have a chance to supercharge our transition.
