Australian imports into US can be topic to 10% tariffs
Ben Doherty
Australian items imported into the US will proceed to draw the nation’s baseline 10% tariff, with Australia dodging any tariff enhance within the newest spherical of Donald Trump’s world commerce warfare.
On Thursday evening US time – Friday morning in Australia – Trump issued an govt order confirming new tariff offers for a number of buying and selling companions, in addition to revised tariffs for a variety of different nations.
Australia will not be talked about within the Government Order, which states that any nations not on the brand new checklist would stay at a ten% tariff fee. It reads:
Items of any overseas buying and selling companion that isn’t listed in Annex I to this order can be topic to an extra ad valorem fee of responsibility of 10 % pursuant to the phrases of Government Order 14257.
The brand new tariff regime will take impact in seven days.
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Trump’s newest govt order castigated unnamed nations he felt had proven inadequate fealty to the US on commerce. The order learn:
Different buying and selling companions, regardless of having engaged in negotiations, have supplied phrases that, in my judgment, don’t sufficiently deal with imbalances in our buying and selling relationship or have didn’t align sufficiently with the US on financial and national-security issues.
There are additionally some buying and selling companions which have failed to interact in negotiations with the US or to take sufficient steps to align sufficiently with the US on financial and nationwide safety issues.
The brand new govt order punishes small economies particularly, who’ve restricted buying and selling relationships with the US: Syria was given a 41% tariff fee, Myanmar and Laos 40%.
The EU has a cut up tariff fee: 0% on some items, and 15% on others.
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Authorities says no nation has reciprocal tariffs decrease than Australia
A spokesperson for the minister for commerce, Don Farrell, simply responded to the information that Australian imports into the US will proceed to be topic to a ten% tariff, saying:
The White Home has confirmed that no nation has reciprocal tariffs decrease than Australia.
Whereas we stay in the absolute best place beneath the US’ new tariff regime, we are going to proceed to advocate for the removing of all tariffs consistent with our free commerce settlement.
{Photograph}: Godofredo A Vásquez/APShareCaitlin Cassidy
Activists land in Australia after being detained by Israeli army on Freedom Flotilla vessel
Two activists have touched down in Australia after being intercepted and detained by the Israeli army whereas making an attempt to move help to Gaza on a Freedom Flotilla vessel.
Journalist Tania “Tan” Safi and human rights activist Robert Martin have been amongst 21 activists on board the Handala ship when it was intercepted final Sunday and transported to Israel.
This morning, the pair landed at Sydney airport after enduring what they described as days of being “brutalised psychologically in each manner”. Safi informed reporters she was nonetheless “just a little bit wobbly” and felt “very sore and weak”. However she mentioned their vessel was the thirty seventh Freedom Flotilla and it “won’t be the final”.
Tania Safi and Robert Martin. Composite: Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Requested in regards to the federal authorities’s holdout on recognising a Palestinian state, after Canada, France and the UK indicated they’ll achieve this on the UN normal meeting in September, Robert informed reporters:
What’s he ready for? What truly is he ready for? The demise of each single Palestinian? … They’re getting massacred, there’s a genocide, they’re ethnic cleaning … it have to be accomplished right this moment.
The press convention on the airport concluded with the calls of “Free Palestine” as Safi and Robert have been embraced by household, mates and supporters.
The Israeli embassy in Canberra was approached for remark.
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Images from final yr’s Garma pageant
Guardian Australia was ultimately yr’s Garma pageant. Listed here are some pictures from that occasion as we put together for this yr’s.
Yolngu purple flag dancers from Numbulwar dance on the Gulkula ceremonial grounds at Garma 2024. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The GuardianWadeye Port Keats clan paint themselves in preparation to carry out at Garma 2024. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The GuardianThe Mangalil carry out at Garma 2024. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The Guardian
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Home costs climb increased as soon as once more
Decrease rates of interest have pushed home costs to a file excessive earlier than one other anticipated minimize, AAP studies.
Residence costs grew nationally at 0.6% in July, marking six consecutive months of will increase which have pushed median dwelling costs to $927,000 within the capital cities and $689,000 within the areas, property knowledge agency Cotality has discovered.
This enhance aligns with the Reserve Financial institution’s first fee minimize in February and with extra on the horizon, costs are solely anticipated to speed up. Cotality’s head of analysis, Eliza Owen, mentioned:
Demand is on the rise as soon as once more and it’s clear that’s largely induced by latest fee cuts and expectations of additional fee cuts this yr. It’s coming at a time when provide is comparatively constrained – each from a building perspective, but additionally from a listings perspective – with much more individuals trying to purchase themselves.
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NSW politician says Sunday protest ‘completely inevitable’ after mishandling
NSW Labor MLC Stephen Lawrence decried what he referred to as a “sluggish however regular demonisation of protest” within the state in a publish explaining his assist for Sunday’s march throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Lawrence wrote on social media:
The circumstances of this protest aren’t perfect, however the occasion is now completely inevitable, largely due to the best way it has been mishandled. Police have numerous respect locally, however when it’s perceived their operational powers are the topic of route from a political actor their capability to barter with protestors and resolve conditions is undermined.
Management is typically about accepting the bounds of your authority.
The presence of a lot of MP’s could make extra probably authorities facilitating this occasion occuring safely on Sunday or agreeing to postpone it. I decline to depart activists, protestors, unionists and all the opposite good individuals to do that on their very own.
MLC Stephen Lawrence. {Photograph}: Bianca de Marchi/AAPShare
Australian imports into US can be topic to 10% tariffs
Ben Doherty
Australian items imported into the US will proceed to draw the nation’s baseline 10% tariff, with Australia dodging any tariff enhance within the newest spherical of Donald Trump’s world commerce warfare.
On Thursday evening US time – Friday morning in Australia – Trump issued an govt order confirming new tariff offers for a number of buying and selling companions, in addition to revised tariffs for a variety of different nations.
Australia will not be talked about within the Government Order, which states that any nations not on the brand new checklist would stay at a ten% tariff fee. It reads:
Items of any overseas buying and selling companion that isn’t listed in Annex I to this order can be topic to an extra ad valorem fee of responsibility of 10 % pursuant to the phrases of Government Order 14257.
The brand new tariff regime will take impact in seven days.
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What are your rights to protest in NSW – and the way have they modified?
It’s price taking a look at this nice explainer from our personal Jordyn Beazley after adjustments got here in earlier this yr.
What are your rights to protest in NSW and the way have they modified? – videoShare
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Northern Territory adjustments to Youth Justice Act, together with the return of spit hoods, go parliament
A controversial plan to reinstate spit hoods within the Northern Territory’s youth detention centres handed parliament final evening, in addition to a slate of different adjustments to the territory’s Youth Justice Act.
As reported yesterday, spit hoods are set to return first the primary time, reversing a ban imposed eight years in the past.
The adjustments additionally embrace the removing of the precept of detention as a final resort. The courts would additionally be capable of take into account a teen’s full felony historical past when sentencing them for grownup offences.
Selena Uibo, chief of the opposition within the NT, sharply criticised the adjustments, saying they might do “nothing to forestall youth crime”:
This newest transfer is nothing greater than chaos described as coverage, a kneejerk response to mounting public stress, not an actual plan to interrupt the cycle of youth offending.
Northern Territory opposition chief Selena Uibo. {Photograph}: (a)manda Parkinson/AAPShare
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Legal professionals query NSW’s protest legal guidelines in open letter
In an open letter, attorneys have once more questioned NSW’s protest legal guidelines and argued they run opposite to Australia’s civil rights obligations beneath a world treaty, AAP studies. Australian Legal professionals for Human Rights vp Kerry Weste mentioned:
As a celebration to the core United Nations human rights treaties, Australia has recognised that freedom of meeting is a basic human proper and, in consequence, NSW should defend it.
The suitable of peaceable meeting extends to all gatherings for peaceable functions, wherever they happen. and no matter whether or not they happen within the type of demonstrations, protests, conferences, processions, rallies, sit-ins, candle-lit vigils and even flash mobs.
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The Uluru Dialogue asks: “how can we see any progress on Closing the Hole by doing extra of the identical?”
The assertion provides:
The fact is, we’ve had 18 years to make progress on Closing the Hole, however the identical individuals and establishments are nonetheless in control of deciding what we do and what adjustments are made. …
The core of the voice marketing campaign is that it could compel the federal government and the bureaucrats to seek the advice of. Your entire function of Closing the Hole is aimed toward supporting probably the most deprived, monitoring targets to enhance the lives of First Nations Folks.
However the place are they on this dialogue? Have that they had a seat on the desk?
The reply is not any.
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The Uluru Dialogue says Closing the Hole is ‘going backwards’
The Uluru Dialogue simply launched an announcement on the primary day of the annual Garma pageant. The group behind the Uluru Assertion from the Coronary heart mentioned:
Sufficient is sufficient. There aren’t any surprises, we’re on the similar place we have been in March. The established order. No actual progress. …
Closing the Hole isn’t simply stagnant… It’s going backwards as a result of the information lags.
The group mentioned whereas Garma is imminent, “we’re bored with being informed, but once more, that there isn’t a progress on Closing the Hole, there’s extra to do, there’s extra knowledge to get, there are extra bureaucrats to persuade …”
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And for good measure, the Newsroom version of our Full Story podcast focuses on the Palestinian problem.
Reged Ahmad talks to deputy editor Patrick Keneally and head of newsroom Mike Ticher about Anthony Albanese’s choice to to date resist stress pushing Australia in the direction of Palestinian recognition.
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NSW politicians share assertion backing March for Humanity throughout Sydney Harbour Bridge
We’ve already talked about Alex Greenwich’s assist for Sunday’s March for Humanity throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge – he’s amongst six NSW MPs in a 15-strong group of state politicians voicing their assist for the protest and calling on the state authorities to permit it to proceed.
The opposite NSW MPs are Jacqui Scruby, Lynda Voltz, Kobi Shetty, Jenny Leong and Tamara Smith.
Leong and Voltz plan to hitch in particular person, whereas the opposite 4 mentioned they’re in full assist, however unable to attend the occasion.
The MLCs who signed the assertion, shared in a single day, are Sue Higginson, John Ruddick, Cameron Murphy, Cate Faehrmann, Sarah Kaine, Abigail Boyd, Amanda Cohn, Anthony D’Adam and Stephen Lawrence. The assertion reads:
We the undersigned members of the NSW Parliament assist, and can attend, Sunday’s March for Humanity and Palestine throughout the harbour bridge.
We achieve this to sign in robust phrases our disapproval of the continuing hunger of Palestinian individuals and the destruction of Gaza and our dedication to the precise to protest in opposition to it.
We name upon the NSW authorities to work with the organisers to facilitate a secure and orderly occasion, on Sunday 3 August, or on another agreed date.
Hundreds of individuals have been anticipated to hitch the procession on Sunday to protest Israel’s warfare on the blockaded enclave, earlier than police confirmed they might not allow it.
NSW police has taken court docket motion to classify it as illegal and unauthorised, with the matter listed for 12.30pm right this moment within the supreme court docket.
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Burke says assembly with US FBI director ‘actually good’
Burke spoke in regards to the quiet assembly he held with US FBI director Kash Patel on Thursday. He informed RN Breakfast the assembly was “actually good”, describing it as “an incredible dialogue of the alternative ways by which we maintain individuals secure”. Burke went on:
There’s an entire vary of points we cooperate on, from issues that folks would take into consideration by way of counter-terrorism, however proper by to some problems with overseas interference, however different points of kid safety. The cooperation could be very actual, very robust.
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Tony Burke says Australia must be ‘clear-eyed’ about intelligence threats
Tony Burke, the minister for dwelling affairs, mentioned the federal government has invested greater than $70m prior to now 4 years to assist fight espionage actions, however mentioned Asio’s remarks have been meant to recognise that dangerous actors have been concentrating on Australia. He informed RN Breakfast:
We must be clear-eyed that there are individuals desirous to steal secrets and techniques, a few of them authorities, a few of them business. And once you’re clear-eyed about what’s occurring, you possibly can then sensibly take the measures to make it as exhausting as attainable for them to do this.
Minister for dwelling affairs Tony Burke. {Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
Burke added the variety of individuals mentioning their safety clearances on social media had dropped since issues have been raised a number of years in the past, noting:
For individuals who wish to interact in espionage and overseas interference, their strategies mustn’t start with a easy Google search to see who’re the individuals who they would want.
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