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Speaker 3: for this kind of information because we're dealing with a
Speaker 3: lot of things between Australia and the United States, not
Speaker 3: to mention Canada if you're hearing all of this kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. Anyways, while I start with President Donald Trump. Now,
Speaker 3: from what I hear for Donald Trump is that he
Speaker 3: is well announcings more to new terriffs, not just through Canada,
Speaker 3: not just through Australia, but mostly around the world for
Speaker 3: that matter. But he'll bring out all the coverages through
Speaker 3: the Australian perspective, through the ABC News in full about
Speaker 3: the full details of what it means between triffs, not
Speaker 3: just again, not just in Canada the United States, but
Speaker 3: also in Australia. After that, I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 3: presentation of what Anthony Albany's the Prime Minister of Australia
Speaker 3: mentions about anything on terriffs and so forth, and then
Speaker 3: I'll bring in afterwards the UH information on what.
Speaker 4: Not just.
Speaker 3: Anthony lbzis he says, But Peter Dutton will say something
Speaker 3: to that address as well. So there you go, all
Speaker 3: three leaders leader opposition as well. From albo on the
Speaker 3: Australia on the response to the tariff, Donald Trump's terrors
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Thank you, nice crowd. What a
Speaker 4: good looking group of people. Well, we have some very
Speaker 4: very good news today and a lot of good things
Speaker 4: are happening for our country. Please sit down, my fellow Americans.
Speaker 4: This is liberation day waiting for a long time. April second,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, will forever be remembered as the day
Speaker 4: American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed,
Speaker 4: and the day that we began to make America wealthy again,
Speaker 4: going to make it wealthy, good, and wealthy. For decades,
Speaker 4: our country has been looted, pillage, raped, and plundered by
Speaker 4: nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. American
Speaker 4: steel workers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen, we have
Speaker 4: a lot of them here with us today. They really
Speaker 4: suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have
Speaker 4: stolen our jobs. Foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and
Speaker 4: foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.
Speaker 4: We had an American dream that you don't hear so
Speaker 4: much about. You did four years ago and you are now,
Speaker 4: but you know't too often, and for many years and
Speaker 4: decades even you didn't hear too much about. Our country
Speaker 4: and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than
Speaker 4: fifty years. But it is not going to happen anymore.
Speaker 4: It's not going to happen. In a few moments, I
Speaker 4: will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on
Speaker 4: countries throughout the world. Reciprocal That means they do it
Speaker 4: to us and we do it to them. Very simple.
Speaker 4: Can't get any simpler than that. This is one of
Speaker 4: the most important days, in my opinion, in American history.
Speaker 4: It's our declaration of economic independence. For years, hard working
Speaker 4: American citizens were forced to sit on the sidelines as
Speaker 4: other nations got rich and powerful, much of it at
Speaker 4: our expense. But now it's our turn to prosper and
Speaker 4: in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to
Speaker 4: reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt. And
Speaker 4: it'll all happen very quickly. With today's action, we are
Speaker 4: finally going to be able to make America great again,
Speaker 4: greater than ever before. Jobs and factories will come roaring
Speaker 4: back into our country, and you see it happening already.
Speaker 4: We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. We will probably
Speaker 4: open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers, and
Speaker 4: ultimately more production at home will mean stronger competition and
Speaker 4: lower prices for consumers. This will be indeed the Golden
Speaker 4: Age of America. It's coming back. We're going to come
Speaker 4: back very strongly. We're pleased to be joined on this
Speaker 4: momentous occasion by Vice President JD vance At JD. Thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you very much. Are you JD? That
Speaker 4: wasn't too hard to find. I was looking. You know.
Speaker 4: He likes to take a low key attitude and usually
Speaker 4: be said right in front. He's gaining a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4: Mike is there, and nearly my entire cabinet is here
Speaker 4: as well as Speaker. Mike Johnson has done an amazing job.
Speaker 4: And with the great success we had last night in Florida,
Speaker 4: we have a majority of seven, and seven's like a
Speaker 4: lot when we had it at one. You've done a
Speaker 4: fantastic job, and many of the members of the House
Speaker 4: and Senator with us. Senators, Congressman, thank you all for
Speaker 4: being with us. We appreciate it. For decades, the United
Speaker 4: States slashed our trade barriers and other countries while those
Speaker 4: nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous
Speaker 4: non monetary barriers to decimate our industries. And in many cases,
Speaker 4: the non monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones.
Speaker 4: They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property,
Speaker 4: imposed exorbitant vat taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair
Speaker 4: rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens. They
Speaker 4: were absolutely filthy, but they always came to us and
Speaker 4: they said, we're violating. We should pay for it. It's
Speaker 4: all detailed in a very big report by the US
Speaker 4: Trade Representative on foreign trade barriers. And I'll just hold
Speaker 4: it up for you. It's available, and you don't have
Speaker 4: to pay too much. As I understand it, you'll pay nothing.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of work, a lot of work for
Speaker 4: something actually, because it's a special it's a special book.
Speaker 4: It's very frankly, it's very upsetting when you read it,
Speaker 4: when you see what people have been doing to us
Speaker 4: for thirty years. This all happened with no response from
Speaker 4: the United States of America, none whatsoever. But those days
Speaker 4: are over. Let me offer just a few examples of
Speaker 4: the vicious attacks workers have faced for so many years.
Speaker 4: The United States charges other countries only a two point
Speaker 4: four tariff on motorcycles. Meanwhile, Thailand and others are charging
Speaker 4: much higher prices like sixty percent. India charges seventy percent,
Speaker 4: Vietnam charges seventy five percent, and others are even higher
Speaker 4: than that. Likewise, until today, the United States has for
Speaker 4: decades charged a two point five tariff. Think of that
Speaker 4: two point five percent on foreign made automobiles. The European
Speaker 4: Union charges US more than ten percent tariffs, and they
Speaker 4: have twenty percent vats much much higher. India charges seventy percent,
Speaker 4: and perhaps worst of all, of the non monetary restrictions
Speaker 4: imposed by South Korea, in Japan and very many other nations.
Speaker 4: As a result of these colossal trade barriers, eighty one
Speaker 4: percent of the cars in South Carea are made in
Speaker 4: South Korea. Ninety four percent of the cars in Japan
Speaker 4: are made in Japan. Toyota sells one million foreign made
Speaker 4: automobiles into the United States, and General Motor sells almost none.
Speaker 4: Ford sells very little. None of our companies are allowed
Speaker 4: to go into countries. And I say that friend and foe,
Speaker 4: and in many cases the friend is worse than the
Speaker 4: foe in terms of trade. But such horrendous imbalances have
Speaker 4: devastated our industrial base and put our national security at risk.
Speaker 4: I don't blame these other countries at all for this calamity.
Speaker 4: I blame former presidents and past leaders who weren't doing
Speaker 4: their job. They let it happen, and they let it
Speaker 4: happen to an extent that nobody can even believe. That's why,
Speaker 4: effective at midnight, we will impose the twenty five percent
Speaker 4: tariff on all foreign made automobiles. Thank you, Brian. I'd
Speaker 4: like to have you come up here for a second. Okay,
Speaker 4: I just see him saying he's been a fan of ours,
Speaker 4: and he understands this business a lot better than the economists,
Speaker 4: a lot better than anybody. Brian, say a few words, please,
Speaker 4: would you? Thank you, thank you. It's great honor to
Speaker 4: have you. Thanks, thank you, mister president.
Speaker 5: I grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan and McComb
Speaker 5: County in Democrats. My first vote for president was for
Speaker 5: Ronald Reagan. I thought that was gonna be the best
Speaker 5: president I ever saw in my lifetime until Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump came along.
Speaker 5: I have watched my entire life, I have watched plant
Speaker 5: after plant after plant in Detroit and in the Metro
Speaker 5: Detroit area close. There are now plants sitting idle. There
Speaker 5: are now plants that are underutilized. And Donald Trump's policies
Speaker 5: are going to bring product back into those underutilized plants.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be new investment. There's gonna be new plants
Speaker 5: built in the UAW members and I brought twenty of
Speaker 5: them with me. They're sitting right over here. We support
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's policies on tariffs one hundred percent. So, mister President,
Speaker 5: we can't thank you enough. And in six months or
Speaker 5: a year, we're gonna begin to see the benefits. I
Speaker 5: can't wait to see what's happening three or four years
Speaker 5: down the road. Thank you, mister President.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much.
Speaker 4: Thank you. What a great guy. He got it right
Speaker 4: from the beginning. He got it before almost anybody else.
Speaker 4: This group over there, they got it too. And you know,
Speaker 4: we won the state of Michigan. We won almost all
Speaker 4: of them, but we won Michigan by a lot. And
Speaker 4: I want to just thank you.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 4: The auto workers were fantastic, the teamsters were fantastic. Everyone
Speaker 4: who is pretty good. I will tell you, thank you
Speaker 4: very much. I appreciate it. You're going to be very
Speaker 4: happy very soon. And you probably see what's happening with
Speaker 4: all of the not only car companies, but car companies
Speaker 4: in particular, to see it with all of the ones
Speaker 4: they're moving they're announcing day in, day out, you're seeing it.
Speaker 4: Nobody's ever seen anything like that. With today's actions, we're
Speaker 4: also standing up for our great farmers and ranchers who
Speaker 4: are brutalized by nations all over the world. Brutalized. Canada,
Speaker 4: by the way, imposes a two hundred and fifty to
Speaker 4: three hundred percent tariff on many of our dairy products.
Speaker 4: They do the first, the first can of milk, they
Speaker 4: do the first little carton of milk at at very
Speaker 4: low price, but after that it gets bad and then
Speaker 4: it gets up to two hundred and seventy five three
Speaker 4: hundred percent. So when they're figuring what's Canada charging, they say, oh,
Speaker 4: about two percent three percent. But take a look at
Speaker 4: what happens down the road when you look a little bit,
Speaker 4: it's not a pretty picture. And we don't like it,
Speaker 4: and it's not fair. It's not fair to our farmers,
Speaker 4: it's not fair to our country. And with countries like Canada,
Speaker 4: you know, we subsidize a lot of countries and keep
Speaker 4: them going and keep them in business. In the case
Speaker 4: of Mexico, it's three hundred billion dollars a year. In
Speaker 4: the case of Canada, it's close to two hundred billion
Speaker 4: dollars a year, and they say, why are we doing this?
Speaker 4: Why are we doing this? I mean, at what point
Speaker 4: do we say you got to work for yourselves? And
Speaker 4: you got to This is why we have the big
Speaker 4: def since, this is why we have that amount of
Speaker 4: debt that's been placed on our heads over the last
Speaker 4: number of years, and we're really not taking it anymore.
Speaker 4: Through non tariff barriers. The European Union bands imports of
Speaker 4: most American poultry. You understand, they say, we want to
Speaker 4: send you our cars, we want to send you everything,
Speaker 4: but we're not going to take anything that you have.
Speaker 4: Australia bands and they're wonderful people and wonderful everything, but
Speaker 4: they ban American beef. Yet we imported three billion dollars
Speaker 4: of Australian beef from them just last year alone. They
Speaker 4: won't take any of our beef. They don't want it
Speaker 4: because they don't want it to affect their farmers. And
Speaker 4: you know what, I don't blame them, but we're doing
Speaker 4: the same thing right now, starting about midnight tonight, I
Speaker 4: would say, and China charges American rice farmers and over quota.
Speaker 4: It's called a tariff raid of sixty five percent. South
Speaker 4: Korea charges fifty They charged different from fifty percent to
Speaker 4: five hundred and thirteen percent. In Japan, our friend charges
Speaker 4: a seven hundred percent, but that's because they don't want
Speaker 4: us selling rice another thing. Who can blame them, Madam
Speaker 4: Secretary Agriculture, Great job you did on eggs. By the way,
Speaker 4: the egg prices came down fifty percent. You got them
Speaker 4: down fifty percent once we got involved. They were going
Speaker 4: through the sky, the egg prices, they were going through
Speaker 4: the sky, and you did a fantastic job. Now we
Speaker 4: have lots of eggs and they're much cheaper, down about
Speaker 4: fifty nine percent now, and they're going down further. We
Speaker 4: charged two point eight percent for so many things that
Speaker 4: other countries are charging two hundred percent, three hundred percent,
Speaker 4: then four hundred percent for If imposing tariffs and protective
Speaker 4: barriers made nations poor, then every country on Earth would
Speaker 4: be racing to eliminate these policies. In China would be
Speaker 4: the first online. They run a very strong country, but
Speaker 4: they're not first in line, and the American people are
Speaker 4: paying a very big price. From seventeen eighty nine to
Speaker 4: nineteen thirteen, we were a tariff back nation in the
Speaker 4: United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.
Speaker 4: So wealthy, in fact, that in the eighteen eighties they
Speaker 4: established a commission to decide what they were going to
Speaker 4: do with the vast sums of money they were collecting.
Speaker 4: We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn't
Speaker 4: know what to do with it. Isn't that a nice
Speaker 4: problem to have? What do you think, Marco? Good problem?
Speaker 4: Marco would love that problem. But we don't have that
Speaker 4: problem anymore. But we're not going to have it very
Speaker 4: much longer, I will tell you. But they collected so
Speaker 4: much money they actually formed a commission to determine what
Speaker 4: they were going to do with the money, who they
Speaker 4: were going to give it to, and how much. Then
Speaker 4: in nineteen thirteen, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established
Speaker 4: the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries,
Speaker 4: would start paying the money necessary to run our government.
Speaker 4: Then in nineteen twenty nine, it all came to a
Speaker 4: very abrupt end with a great depression, And it would
Speaker 4: have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy.
Speaker 4: It would have been a much different story. They tried
Speaker 4: to bring back tariffs to save our country but it
Speaker 4: was gone. It was gone. It was too late. Nothing
Speaker 4: could have been done. Took years and years to get
Speaker 4: out of that depression, far longer than even FDR had
Speaker 4: that office right over there for a long period of time.
Speaker 4: The ramp system, it's rather intricate, was built because of him,
Speaker 4: and every time you walk up, you think of him.
Speaker 4: And he did a great job in many ways. But
Speaker 4: it lasted long beyond his terms, as you know. But
Speaker 4: it's not too late any longer. And we're going to
Speaker 4: start being smart, and we're going to start being very
Speaker 4: wealthy again. We're going to be wealthy as a country.
Speaker 4: Because they've taken so much of our wealth away from us.
Speaker 4: We're not going to let that happen. We truly can
Speaker 4: be very wealthy. We can be so much wealthier than
Speaker 4: any country, it's not even believable. But we're getting smart.
Speaker 4: Nearly a century later, in the face of unrelenting economic warfare,
Speaker 4: the United States can no longer continue with a policy
Speaker 4: of unilateral economic surrender. We cannot pay the deficits of
Speaker 4: Canada and Mexico and so many other countries. We used
Speaker 4: to do it, we can't do it anymore. We take
Speaker 4: care of countries all over the world. We pay for
Speaker 4: their military, We pay for everything they have to pay.
Speaker 4: And then when you want to cut back a little bit,
Speaker 4: they get upset that you're not taking care of them
Speaker 4: any longer. But we have to take care of our people,
Speaker 4: and we're going to take care of our people first.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry to say that. And today we're standing
Speaker 4: up for the American worker, and we are finally putting
Speaker 4: America first. In sleepy Joe Biden's last year in office
Speaker 4: to the United States hemorrhaged one hundred thousand manufacturing jobs and
Speaker 4: the number was going through the roof at levels never
Speaker 4: seen before. And our trade deficit reached a record one
Speaker 4: point two trillion dollars, which is unheard of. Since the
Speaker 4: beginning of NAFA, the worst trade deal ever made. It
Speaker 4: was a horror show. I was able to determine it.
Speaker 4: They all said, you'd never be able to get it out.
Speaker 4: We had to get approval from Congress to get it terminated.
Speaker 4: We had to live with that deal was the worst deal,
Speaker 4: worst trade deal ever made by far. But since the
Speaker 4: very beginning of NAFTA, our country lost ninety thousand factories.
Speaker 4: Think of what that is. Ninety thousand. Think about putting
Speaker 4: a map up and putting text on it. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: have enough room. Ninety thousand, I said, is that possible?
Speaker 4: We had to check four different times, and it was
Speaker 4: actually somewhat higher than that. And five million manufacturing jobs
Speaker 4: were lost while racking up trade deficits of nineteen trillion dollars.
Speaker 4: That was the worst trade deal ever made. As a
Speaker 4: result of these gigantic losses, foreign nations now own twenty
Speaker 4: six trillion dollars more of American assets than Americans. Think
Speaker 4: of this, than the Americans own of their own foreign
Speaker 4: assets or other foreign assets. The United States can no
Speaker 4: longer produce enough antibiotics to treat our sick. We have
Speaker 4: a tremendous problem. We have to go to foreign countries
Speaker 4: to treat our sick. If anything ever happened from a
Speaker 4: war standpoint, we wouldn't be able to do it. We
Speaker 4: import virtually all of our computers, phones, televisions, and electronics.
Speaker 4: We used to dominate the field, and now we import
Speaker 4: it all from different countries. A single shipyard in China
Speaker 4: now produces more ships every year than all of the
Speaker 4: American shipyards combined. Think of that, and it was a
Speaker 4: business that we used to dominate. We used to dominate
Speaker 4: it totally. In short, chronic trade deficits are no longer
Speaker 4: merely an economic problem. They're a national emergence. See that
Speaker 4: threatens our security and our very way of life. It's
Speaker 4: a very great threat to our country and for these reasons.
Speaker 4: Starting tomorrow, the United States will implement reciprocal tariffs on
Speaker 4: other nations. It's been a long time since we even
Speaker 4: thought of that. We used to think about it a lot.
Speaker 4: We didn't think about it for many decades, and you
Speaker 4: see what's happened for nations that treat us badly. We
Speaker 4: will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, non
Speaker 4: monetary barriers, and other forms of cheating. And because we
Speaker 4: are being very kind, we're kind people, very kind. You're
Speaker 4: not so kind when you get ripped off with your salaries.
Speaker 4: My autoworker friends and my teamster friends, and all of
Speaker 4: the unions that typically voted Democrat, they're not voting Democrat
Speaker 4: anymore because the worker, whether union or non worker, they're
Speaker 4: for the Republicans. Now, that's what happened. But we will
Speaker 4: charge them approximately half of what they are and have
Speaker 4: been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a
Speaker 4: full reciprocal. I could have done that, yes, but it
Speaker 4: would have been tough for a lot of countries. We
Speaker 4: didn't want to do that. I'd like to see the chart.
Speaker 4: If you have it, could you bring it up, Howard?
Speaker 4: This is our great Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick. Thanks.
Speaker 4: So if you look at that China first row, China,
Speaker 4: sixty seven percent, that's tariffs charged to the USA, including
Speaker 4: currency manipulation and trade barriers. So sixty seven percent. I
Speaker 4: think you can, for the most part see it. Those
Speaker 4: with good eyes with bad eyes. We didn't want to
Speaker 4: bring the it's very windy out here. We didn't want
Speaker 4: to bring out the big charts because it had no
Speaker 4: chance of standing. Fortunately, we came armed with a little
Speaker 4: smaller chart. So sixty seven percent. So we're going to
Speaker 4: be charging a discounted reciprocal for thirty four percent. I think.
Speaker 4: In other words, they charge us, we charge them, we
Speaker 4: charge them less. So how can anybody be upset? They
Speaker 4: will be because we never charge anybody anything. But now
Speaker 4: we're gonna charge European Union. They're very tough, very very
Speaker 4: tough traders. You know, you think of European Union, very friendly.
Speaker 4: They rip us off. It's so sad to see, it's
Speaker 4: so pathetic. Thirty nine percent. We're gonna charge them twenty percent,
Speaker 4: So we're charging them potentially have Vietnam, great negotiators, great people,
Speaker 4: they like me. I like them. The problem is they
Speaker 4: charge us ninety percent. We're gonna charge them forty six
Speaker 4: percent tariff. Taiwan where they make they took all of
Speaker 4: our computer chips and semiconductors. We used to be the king, right,
Speaker 4: we were everything. We had all of it. Now we
Speaker 4: have almost none of it. Except the biggest company is
Speaker 4: coming in they're gonna have We're gonna end up with
Speaker 4: almost forty percent. Leez Elden's working to get their approvals
Speaker 4: and it's an amazing company, mister way of one of
Speaker 4: the great companies of the world. Actually, they're coming in
Speaker 4: from Taiwan and they're got to build one of the
Speaker 4: biggest plants in the world, maybe the biggest for that.
Speaker 4: But sixty four percent, we're going to charge them thirty
Speaker 4: two percent. Japan very very tough, great people. And again
Speaker 4: I don't blame the people for doing it. It's I
Speaker 4: think they're very smart to do it. I blame the
Speaker 4: people that sat right in that oval office, right over there,
Speaker 4: right behind the resolute desk. Whichever death they charge Japan
Speaker 4: forty six percent, they would charge us forty six percent,
Speaker 4: and much higher for certain items like cars, you know,
Speaker 4: little items like cars, forty six percent. We're charging them
Speaker 4: twenty four percent. India very very tough, very very tough.
Speaker 4: They Prime minister just left, and he's a great friend
Speaker 4: of mine. But I said, you're a friend of mine,
Speaker 4: but you're not treating us right. They charged us fifty
Speaker 4: two percent. You have to understand, we charge them almost
Speaker 4: nothing for years and years and decades, and it was
Speaker 4: only seven years ago when I came in. We started
Speaker 4: with China, Georgia. We took in hundreds of billions of
Speaker 4: dollars from China in tariffs, and they understood. Honestly, Presidency understood.
Speaker 4: He said, look, I understand, and the other countries and
Speaker 4: they all understand. We're gonna have to go through a
Speaker 4: little tough love maybe, but they all understand they're ripping
Speaker 4: us off, and they understood it. Prime Minister of Japan,
Speaker 4: Shinzo was Shinzo Abbi. He was a fantastic man. He
Speaker 4: was unfortunately taken from US assassination. But I went to
Speaker 4: him and I said, Shinzo, we have to do something
Speaker 4: at trade is not fair. He said, I know that.
Speaker 4: I know that, and he was a great gentleman. He
Speaker 4: was a fantastic man, but he understood immediately what I
Speaker 4: was talking about. I said, Shinzo, we have to do something.
Speaker 4: He said, I know that, and we've worked out a
Speaker 4: deal and it would have been a much better deal.
Speaker 4: But frankly, there were many years left on the deal
Speaker 4: that was made previous to my getting there, but it
Speaker 4: was it was something if you look at Switzerland sixty
Speaker 4: one percent to thirty one percent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia. Who
Speaker 4: look at Cambodia ninety seven percent, we're going to bring
Speaker 4: it down to forty nine. They made a fortune with
Speaker 4: the United States of America, United Kingdom ten percent, and
Speaker 4: we'll go ten percent. So we'll do the same thing.
Speaker 4: South Africa, oh, sixty percent, thirty percent. And they've got
Speaker 4: some bad things going on in South Africa. You know,
Speaker 4: we're paying them billions of dollars that we cut the
Speaker 4: funding because a lot of bad things are happening in
Speaker 4: South Africa. The fake news are to be looking at it.
Speaker 4: They don't want to report it. Brazil ten percent, ten percent,
Speaker 4: Bangladesh is seventy four percent, so you see what's going on.
Speaker 4: Pakistan fifty eight percent, Sri Lanka eighty eight percent. So
Speaker 4: what we're doing is we're taking not the full. We
Speaker 4: could take the full eighty eight percent. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4: He's doing a very good job. How's he doing? All right?
Speaker 4: I think you better take it with you. It's not
Speaker 4: gonna last very long. He's gonna put it. That's gonna
Speaker 4: follow you down with the wind. I brought a hat
Speaker 4: just in case he got too windy. But here would
Speaker 4: anybody like a hat I'm giving I'm not giving you
Speaker 4: to a cabinet. I'm giving it to the auto workers.
Speaker 4: Thank you, fellas. Yeah, that's it, that's it. They deserve
Speaker 4: it more than our cabinet. Our cabinet has plenty of hats.
Speaker 4: But you see the numbers. The numbers are so disproportionate,
Speaker 4: they're so unfair. At the same time, we will establish
Speaker 4: a minimum baseline tariff of ten percent you notice that
Speaker 4: on the chart, and that'll be on other countries to
Speaker 4: help rebuild our economy and to prevent cheating. So we're
Speaker 4: gonna have a minimum of cheating, and we're going to
Speaker 4: be very severe on the people that at the gate
Speaker 4: that watched the tariffs and watch the product coming in,
Speaker 4: because there's been a lot of bad things happening at
Speaker 4: the gate, because the money is so enormous that you're
Speaker 4: talking about, there's never been probably anything like it in
Speaker 4: terms of the enormity, and there are a lot of
Speaker 4: bad things happen at the people that do the check in,
Speaker 4: and they're looking at ten year jail sentences. If they
Speaker 4: do play, we're going to treat them so good. But
Speaker 4: if they cheat, the repercussions are going to be extremely strong.
Speaker 4: Foreign nations will finally be asked to pay for the
Speaker 4: privilege of access to our market, the biggest market in
Speaker 4: the world, where right now the biggest market in the world.
Speaker 4: We had a great country four years ago in terms
Speaker 4: of the economics. We were doubling up on China. We
Speaker 4: were doing so well, nobody was going to catch us.
Speaker 4: But so much of it slipped away over the last
Speaker 4: four years under Biden. I campaigned on this policy throughout
Speaker 4: last year and today. That promise was made, and it
Speaker 4: was also a promise, as you know, that was kept
Speaker 4: promises made, promises kept to any company that objects to
Speaker 4: our common sense reciprocal tariffs again reciprocal, back and forth,
Speaker 4: back and forth, and were I call this kind reciprocal.
Speaker 4: This is not full reciprocal. This is kind reciprocal. But
Speaker 4: what we do is we cut it in half. We
Speaker 4: charge them. My answer is very simple. If they complain,
Speaker 4: if you want you're tariff right to be zero, then
Speaker 4: you build your product right here in America, because there
Speaker 4: is no tariff if you build your plant, your product
Speaker 4: in America. And we've seen companies coming in like we've
Speaker 4: never seen before. Likewise, to all of the foreign presidents,
Speaker 4: prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors, and everyone else who will
Speaker 4: soon be calling to ask for exemptions from these tariffs,
Speaker 4: I say, terminate your own tariffs, drop your barriers, don't
Speaker 4: manipulate your currencies. They manipulate their currencies like nobody can
Speaker 4: even believe, which is a bad, bad thing and very
Speaker 4: devastating to us, and start buying tens of billions of
Speaker 4: dollars of American goods. Tariffs give our country protection against
Speaker 4: those that would do US economic harm. And many people
Speaker 4: were looking to do US economic arm. Maybe not so obviously,
Speaker 4: but they were doing tremendous economic harm. But even more importantly,
Speaker 4: they will give us growth. These tariffs are going to
Speaker 4: give us growth like you haven't seen before, and it'll
Speaker 4: be something very special to watch. I am so looking
Speaker 4: forward to Brian. It's going to happen even faster than
Speaker 4: you said. You know, you might, you might say, but
Speaker 4: it's already started. It's already started. Work's already begun on
Speaker 4: plants all around the country. And you see that as before.
Speaker 4: These are big rich companies. We have sixty one billion
Speaker 4: dollars started on a big plant going up. It's going
Speaker 4: to be announced over the next two days. And they
Speaker 4: already started work. Many of these biggest, the biggest companies
Speaker 4: in the world, they've committed to build, the build to build.
Speaker 4: We're going to build, build, build, sir, And they came
Speaker 4: here to see me, and they came wanted to know
Speaker 4: if they could have a press conference. They do as
Speaker 4: many as I can. I'm pretty busy trying to stop
Speaker 4: Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East. We got to
Speaker 4: stop that. We're going to stop the hooties which were
Speaker 4: making tremendous They like shooting ships down and out of
Speaker 4: the water, seeking chips. They get a kick out of it.
Speaker 4: But they're not getting such a kick out of it now,
Speaker 4: are they, mister secretary. They're not getting such a kick
Speaker 4: out of that now. But here are just a short
Speaker 4: list of some of the companies that have already announced
Speaker 4: and committed to investment. And this is a company that
Speaker 4: built its factories and its plants in China. Apple is
Speaker 4: going to spend five hundred billion dollars. They never spent
Speaker 4: money like that here. They're going to will their plants here.
Speaker 4: Soft Bank, Open Ai, and Oracle great companies are investing
Speaker 4: five hundred billion dollars almost immediately. Navidia, a hot company,
Speaker 4: is investing hundreds of billions of dollars. They just announced TSMC,
Speaker 4: the biggest, most important company in the world of chips
Speaker 4: from Taiwan with no investment from US, is investing two
Speaker 4: hundred billion. And they said the reason was number one,
Speaker 4: the election of November fifth, and number two the tariffs.
Speaker 4: They don't want to pay the tariffs. And the way
Speaker 4: they're not paying it is to build their plan here.
Speaker 4: So we're going to go from almost no percentage. We
Speaker 4: used to have one hundred percent of the chip market.
Speaker 4: Now it's all in Taiwan. Almost all of it's in Taiwan,
Speaker 4: a couple of other countries, but mostly in Taiwan. And
Speaker 4: think of it, we had one hundred percent. We lost
Speaker 4: it because of people in that office that didn't do
Speaker 4: their job. They allowed it to be stolen from us.
Speaker 4: Johnson and Johnson, Great Company, fifty five billion dollar, ELI
Speaker 4: Lilly twenty seven billion, META is investing five hundred billion dollars,
Speaker 4: while the MAC is investing twenty billion, CMA, CGM twenty
Speaker 4: billion dollars. And then you have Merk and Clariers, Stallanthis
Speaker 4: General Motors, Gerospace, Honda and Nissan, Hyundai are all putting
Speaker 4: in billions and billions of dollars and they're committed one
Speaker 4: hundred percent. So and we have never had We've never had.
Speaker 4: And this is after two and a half months. This
Speaker 4: is not this is after just a short This all
Speaker 4: took place as soon as we came out with what
Speaker 4: everybody wanted to do. You know, I watched the gentleman
Speaker 4: today on televisions to work with Leia Kokova, respected automobile person,
Speaker 4: and he said, you know, because they're asking people, they
Speaker 4: try and get as many negative people as they can,
Speaker 4: but they can't find them too much. It's pretty hard
Speaker 4: to find in terms of what we're doing, especially when
Speaker 4: they see all this investment. They said, So tell me,
Speaker 4: what do you think of what Trump is doing from
Speaker 4: the automobile standpoint? He said, I can't believe it. Somebody
Speaker 4: is finally he's an older guy, real pro, really top
Speaker 4: guy with Leiakoki said, I never thought i'd see the
Speaker 4: day when this would happen, where somebody had the courage
Speaker 4: to go and do what has to be done. This
Speaker 4: is transforming our nation. Our entire nation is going to
Speaker 4: be transformed, not only with the cars, but on every
Speaker 4: single other item that's built. We're going to become an
Speaker 4: industrial powerhouse. And he said that so beautifully today. In fact,
Speaker 4: I'm going to find out. I'm going to get a
Speaker 4: tape and Bruce, I'm going to get that tape and
Speaker 4: I'm going to send it to you out in Long
Speaker 4: Island and you're going to play it for the people
Speaker 4: and all your union workers and your non union workers
Speaker 4: out there. You got a pretty even split, but we
Speaker 4: have so far it looks like we're going to have
Speaker 4: about six trillion dollars of investments. And you wouldn't do
Speaker 4: that in years in this country over the last number
Speaker 4: of years, six trillion dollars, and that's going to be
Speaker 4: much higher by the end of the year. And think
Speaker 4: of what six trillion dollars is. You wouldn't have even
Speaker 4: a small percentage of that under this other system. We're
Speaker 4: going to be an entirely different country. And it's going
Speaker 4: to be fantastic for the workers, it's going to be
Speaker 4: fantastic for everyone. There will never have been a transformation
Speaker 4: of a country like the transformation that's already happening in
Speaker 4: the United States of America. It's an incredible thing to watch,
Speaker 4: and it's incredible to meet with the top people, people
Speaker 4: that you read about, very wealthy people, or people that
Speaker 4: are great managers and executors and presidents of big public companies,
Speaker 4: and to watch the enthusiasm they have now that they
Speaker 4: didn't have. They gave up on our country. They went
Speaker 4: to foreign countries and they built companies are pouring into
Speaker 4: our country at levels never seen before, with jobs and
Speaker 4: money to follow, and it's really beautiful. In the coming days,
Speaker 4: there will be complaints from the globalists and the outsources
Speaker 4: and interests, and the fake news always the fake news
Speaker 4: will always complain, but never forget. Every prediction our opponents
Speaker 4: made about trade for the last thirty years has been
Speaker 4: proven totally wrong. They were wrong about NAFTA, they were
Speaker 4: wrong about China. They were wrong about the Transpecific Partnership,
Speaker 4: which would have been a disaster. If I didn't terminate it,
Speaker 4: If I didn't turn that, terminate that United Auto Workers,
Speaker 4: you would have had no jobs in this country. You
Speaker 4: would have had no jobs. I was all going to
Speaker 4: other countries in my first term. They said tariffs would
Speaker 4: crash the economy. Instead we built the greatest economy in
Speaker 4: the history of the world. And again, I have great
Speaker 4: respect for presidency of China, great respect for China. But
Speaker 4: they were taking tremendous advantage of them of US, and
Speaker 4: I commend them for that. I say, hey, if you
Speaker 4: can get away with it, that's okay. But you know,
Speaker 4: they understand exactly what happening, and they probably most of
Speaker 4: them are saying it's about time they did something. But
Speaker 4: h and they're gonna fight, and they're gonna fight fair.
Speaker 4: Everyone's gonna fight. You know. It's like I say to
Speaker 4: the leaders, look, you got to take care of your country,
Speaker 4: but we have to start taking care of our country. Now,
Speaker 4: we can't do what we've been doing for the last
Speaker 4: fifty years. From the day of my election. The stock
Speaker 4: market went up in my first term eighty eight percent,
Speaker 4: with NaSTA going up one hundred and fifty five percent,
Speaker 4: more than any president has ever had in any term
Speaker 4: in office by far. And I think we're going to
Speaker 4: blow that away. And maybe the numbers won't show, but
Speaker 4: I think they're going to show much better than even
Speaker 4: those numbers. But what you're going to see is you're
Speaker 4: gonna see activity that empty, dead sites, factories that are
Speaker 4: falling down. Those factories will be knocked down, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna have brand new factories built in their place. And
Speaker 4: not only talking about renovating, they're talking about brand new,
Speaker 4: the best anywhere in the world, the biggest anywhere in
Speaker 4: the world. Have a friend who builds car plants, and
Speaker 4: I said, I want to see the biggest and the best.
Speaker 4: He said, well, we have to go to Mexico. I said, now,
Speaker 4: I want to see it in the United States. He said,
Speaker 4: we're not building them. And then this is a year
Speaker 4: and a half ago, during the campaign, he said, we're
Speaker 4: not building You'd have to go to Mexico. When I
Speaker 4: was starting to decide to run, and I went to
Speaker 4: number one in the polls very rapidly. I want to say,
Speaker 4: I want to like, let's say, in the first in
Speaker 4: the first hour, and then shortly thereafter it looked like
Speaker 4: I was going to win, and the fake news was saying, oh, no,
Speaker 4: don't do this. What they don't know is if I
Speaker 4: didn't win, they would have really been in trouble because
Speaker 4: nobody wants to read them anyway. But I tell you what,
Speaker 4: when when it looked like I was going to win,
Speaker 4: I announced that I was going to be doing exactly
Speaker 4: what we're talking about today. Great consistency actually because I've
Speaker 4: been talking about it for forty years, but because I
Speaker 4: saw what was happening forty years ago. If you look
Speaker 4: at my old speeches when I was young, very handsome,
Speaker 4: my old speeches, and it people would say'd be on
Speaker 4: a television show, I'd be talking about how we were
Speaker 4: being ripped off by these countries. I mean, nothing changes
Speaker 4: very much. The only thing to change were the countries.
Speaker 4: But nothing really changes. But you know, it's it's such
Speaker 4: an honor. It's such an honor to be finally able
Speaker 4: to do this. If you look at China. I took
Speaker 4: in hundreds of billions of dollars in my term, hundreds
Speaker 4: of billions. They never paid ten cents to any other president,
Speaker 4: and yet they paid hundreds of billions, so much so
Speaker 4: that Biden couldn't do anything. They wanted to try and
Speaker 4: terminate it because he had a very special relationship with China,
Speaker 4: you know what their relationship was, he had especially, but
Speaker 4: the numbers were so big, the numbers were so big
Speaker 4: that they couldn't do it. So they did ease it up.
Speaker 4: They did things that they shouldn't have done. They made
Speaker 4: it a lot more comfortable for them, but they couldn't
Speaker 4: do it because the numbers were hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 4: And I did that, and we were on our way
Speaker 4: to doing something like incredible, and then we had a
Speaker 4: very bad election. Happened, very bad election. A lot of
Speaker 4: bad things happened. So when I said we've got to
Speaker 4: do it again, I said, we have to make it
Speaker 4: too big to rig. And we made it too big
Speaker 4: to rig, and we won in records, and it was
Speaker 4: a monumental win. And it was such an honor to
Speaker 4: see so many of you, like Brian and your friends
Speaker 4: here with us to celebrate and to more importantly celebrate
Speaker 4: what we're doing, because that wouldn't be a full celebration
Speaker 4: if we didn't do this, Because this will be an
Speaker 4: entirely different country in a short period of time. It'll
Speaker 4: be something the whole world will be talking about it.
Speaker 4: The critics made the very tired predictions earlier this year,
Speaker 4: but in February, core inflation dropped to the lowest rate
Speaker 4: in four years, and the price of eggs, as you know,
Speaker 4: just in a couple of in a month and a half.
Speaker 4: We were there for four weeks, and the first week
Speaker 4: I got blamed for egg I said, I just got it.
Speaker 4: They said eggs have gone up at like two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty percent and you can't get eggs, and they
Speaker 4: were going crazy, and I said, I just got here.
Speaker 4: And then we got to work on eggs. We got
Speaker 4: to work on everything in our great Secretary of Agriculture.
Speaker 4: You did a fantastic job, Brooke Rollins. She did a
Speaker 4: fantastic job. And as I said before, the price of
Speaker 4: eggs drop now fifty nine percent and they're going down
Speaker 4: more and the availability is fantastic. They were saying that
Speaker 4: for Easter, please don't use eggs. Could you use plastic eggs?
Speaker 4: I said, we don't want to do that. We want
Speaker 4: to and you really came through. It's an amazing job.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Brooke. You did great. But likewise,
Speaker 4: an old fashioned term that we use, groceries. I used
Speaker 4: it in the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term,
Speaker 4: but a beautiful term. Groceries. It so it says a
Speaker 4: bag with different things in it. Groceries went through the
Speaker 4: roof and I campaigned on that. I talked about the
Speaker 4: word groceries for a lot. And energy costs now are down,
Speaker 4: groceries are down, Gasoline is way under three dollars, and
Speaker 4: people are beginning to be able to buy things and
Speaker 4: live again. We brought prices way down. We created ten
Speaker 4: thousand already in a few weeks new manufacturing jobs, and
Speaker 4: it was that took place in one month, numbers that
Speaker 4: they haven't seen in a long time. We had virtually
Speaker 4: no inflation under my term. We had virtually no inflation
Speaker 4: for four years, but after transitioning over to Sleepy Joe,
Speaker 4: it went from almost nonexistent to the highest in the
Speaker 4: history of our country. They did the highest inflation in
Speaker 4: the history of our country brought up by energy and
Speaker 4: bad spending and bad policy, and a lot of bad
Speaker 4: things happened. How about allowing millions and millions and millions
Speaker 4: of people to pour into our country with open borders
Speaker 4: where the it's so sad to see even now, and
Speaker 4: I see our great Secretary of you have done. Stand up, please, Christy,
Speaker 4: stand up, Christine Noam and Tom Homan, he's the people
Speaker 4: are doing a great job. But gotten them out in records.
Speaker 4: We have problems with judges that don't want them to
Speaker 4: go out. They want trend dear Raqwa and they want
Speaker 4: Ms thirteen the most vicious gangs ever. Nobody's ever seen
Speaker 4: anything like it, absolute killer gangs. They kill people that
Speaker 4: don't even think about it. And we put them out.
Speaker 4: And we have judges now, radical left judges that want
Speaker 4: to They don't want them to go out, they want
Speaker 4: them to even be brought back. Let's bring them back.
Speaker 4: You've done a fantastic job, and please thank everybody, Homeland Security,
Speaker 4: thank everybody. Appreciate it. And we now have a border
Speaker 4: that's the best border that we've ever had, even better
Speaker 4: than it was my first term. My first term we
Speaker 4: did good, but this one we really specialized that we've
Speaker 4: done really well, and we had records then we had
Speaker 4: with the best safest border four years go, with the
Speaker 4: best border there ever was, and now you've actually matched
Speaker 4: it and done even better. And we're going to get
Speaker 4: it down the right way. And we want people, by
Speaker 4: the way, to come into our country, but we want
Speaker 4: to come in through a legal process. We want them
Speaker 4: to come in legally. We need more people. We need
Speaker 4: people to run these plants and to help THEODO workers
Speaker 4: and the teamsters and the non union people and everybody else.
Speaker 4: But we need people on the farmers. And we're going
Speaker 4: to let people come in, but they want to come in,
Speaker 4: we want them to come in legally. They have to
Speaker 4: have the capability of loving our country. Not people that
Speaker 4: hate our country. We don't want them in our country.
Speaker 4: And now we're going to pass the largest tax cuts
Speaker 4: in American history, and that's where we're relying on Mike
Speaker 4: and John Thune. And we will not cut Social Security, Medicare,
Speaker 4: or Medicaid benefits, and the Democrats will because if they
Speaker 4: got in, the entire economy would collapse. This country is
Speaker 4: heading for a collapse under the people that you saw.
Speaker 4: They were horrible. I think one of the reasons people
Speaker 4: liked the job I have my highest approval end is
Speaker 4: because I think they're comparing me to the worst administration
Speaker 4: in the history of our country. So I appreciate that
Speaker 4: at least. But Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and
Speaker 4: Senate Majority Leader appreciate it. Mike john Thune have been fantastic,
Speaker 4: by the way, but they've been working tirelessly on taking
Speaker 4: the next step to pass the plan for our one
Speaker 4: big beautiful bill. I'd like to name it that if
Speaker 4: you can, one big beauty I made that statement about
Speaker 4: six months ago, and everybody calls it one big beautiful bill,
Speaker 4: and it will be that. It'll have everything, the big
Speaker 4: tax cuts and every incentive there is, and it'll be
Speaker 4: uh fantastic. And by the way, for the cars, we're
Speaker 4: asking for an interest deduction on the loan. So if
Speaker 4: you build the car only in America, we do it, Brian.
Speaker 4: If the car's not built in America, you don't get
Speaker 4: the interest rate deduction. But if you kild the car
Speaker 4: in America, if you buy a car, if it's built
Speaker 4: in America, then you get an interest rate deduction tax deduction.
Speaker 4: And that's a big thing. It's going to be a
Speaker 4: big thing. I think that's going to pay for itself
Speaker 4: very quickly. That deduction never happened. We've never had anything
Speaker 4: like that before. Somebody said, where do you get the idea?
Speaker 4: Because it's so basic, you would think that would have
Speaker 4: happened a long time ago. It never did, and I'm
Speaker 4: very happy it didn't because now I can say that
Speaker 4: was my idea. But we're going to get us closer
Speaker 4: to the debt extension. We have to get the debt
Speaker 4: extension passed, and I know you're going to be able
Speaker 4: to do that, Mike, and it's very important that you
Speaker 4: do that and all of the other things that the
Speaker 4: Senate Budget Plan gives us along with working because I
Speaker 4: know they're working together, John and Mike, and the two
Speaker 4: bills are going very well together. We need to get
Speaker 4: our shared priorities done, including certain permanent tax cuts. We
Speaker 4: want the tax cuts to be permanent, spending cuts, energy,
Speaker 4: and historic investments in defense, border, and so much more.
Speaker 4: We're covering everything. These will be phenomenal. There'll be no
Speaker 4: bill like it. It's going to straighten One bill is
Speaker 4: going to straighten out our country for many, many years
Speaker 4: to come, and we said, let's just do it, and
Speaker 4: let's get it done. And some guys will love it,
Speaker 4: and some guys will like it a little bit less
Speaker 4: because they're not getting what they were exactly looking for,
Speaker 4: but they're getting a lot they'll never If we get
Speaker 4: this done, it'll be the most incredible bill ever passed
Speaker 4: in the history of our Congress and Senate and congressmen.
Speaker 4: The senators and the congressmen, many of whom are here today,
Speaker 4: will be very proud of themselves. I really believe that
Speaker 4: it's going to set us on a whole new prosperous path.
Speaker 4: We're going to cut spending and right size the budget
Speaker 4: back to where it should be. We're going to do
Speaker 4: that very strongly. Thank you, Rick, Thank you, John, thank you.
Speaker 4: Oh look look at all of our senators open. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: that's a nice group of people, but I won't like
Speaker 4: them so much if they don't get this bill done out.
Speaker 4: That's a great group. And Congressman, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, tremendous people. The Senate plan is my
Speaker 4: complete and total support, and the House plan likewise, is
Speaker 4: very similar. They're moving along pretty much at the same clip.
Speaker 4: And as soon as you're ready, you'll show it to
Speaker 4: me and I'm sure it'll have my support. Mind. Every
Speaker 4: Republican Congressman and senator must unify. We have to unify.
Speaker 4: We can't be separated. We have to get it done.
Speaker 4: We have to get absolutely everything we can, and we
Speaker 4: have to take care of the American people. That's the
Speaker 4: only thing that matters. We have to take care of
Speaker 4: the American people first. We need to pass this bill immediately,
Speaker 4: get it done, including debt extension. From this day on,
Speaker 4: we're not going to let anyone tell us that American
Speaker 4: workers and families cannot have the future that they deserve.
Speaker 4: We're going to produce the cars and ships, chips, airplanes, minerals,
Speaker 4: and medicines that we need right here in America. The
Speaker 4: pharmaceutical companies are going to become roaring back, coming roaring back.
Speaker 4: They're all coming back to our country because if they don't,
Speaker 4: they've got a big tax to pay. And if they do,
Speaker 4: I'll be very happy, and you're going to be very happy,
Speaker 4: and you're going to be very safe. We're going to
Speaker 4: build our future with American hands, with American heart, American steel,
Speaker 4: and we're going to build it with American pride like
Speaker 4: we used to. We're approaching our one hundredth day as
Speaker 4: president and have been given credit by a lot of people,
Speaker 4: actually even some of the fake news, can you believe it,
Speaker 4: which in this case hopefully isn't fake, for having done
Speaker 4: more in that time than any other administration in the
Speaker 4: history of our country. In the first one hundred days,
Speaker 4: I think we've had an amazing in terms of what
Speaker 4: we've done, what we've gotten accomplished, like to see if
Speaker 4: we can get that war ended and another war from
Speaker 4: not starting in the Middle East. We have to get Russia.
Speaker 4: They're losing two thousand, on average, two thousand, five hundred
Speaker 4: people of the day, young people, soldiers Russian think of
Speaker 4: that two thousand, five hundred through some days, but on average,
Speaker 4: probably over about one week period, it's two thousand and
Speaker 4: seven hundred and twelve. They say they're losing those soldiers,
Speaker 4: they're dying at being decimated, and they're not from our country,
Speaker 4: but they're from other countries. But they're human beings. They're
Speaker 4: from Russia, they're from Ukraine in this period, most of them,
Speaker 4: and we're going to get it stopped. It's a senseless
Speaker 4: war that would have never happened if I was president
Speaker 4: that it shouldn't be allowed to go on. And I
Speaker 4: think we're being given good cooperation by Russia and by Ukraine,
Speaker 4: but we have to get it stopped. It's humanity, it's humanity.
Speaker 4: It's a terrible thing that this will be a very
Speaker 4: big moment. I think you're going to remember today. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a free nation that we're dealing with.
Speaker 4: We're going to have a very free and beautiful nation
Speaker 4: to be Liberation Day in America, and it's going to
Speaker 4: be a day that hopefully you're going to look back
Speaker 4: in years to come and you're going to say, you know,
Speaker 4: he was raped. This has turned out to be one
Speaker 4: of the most important days in the history of our country.
Speaker 4: God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you, everybody,
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: The unilateral action that the Trump administration has taken today
Speaker 7: against every nation in the world does not come as
Speaker 7: a surprise for Australia.
Speaker 8: These tariffs are not.
Speaker 7: Unexpected, but let me be clear, they are totally unwarranted.
Speaker 7: President Trump referred to reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would
Speaker 7: be zero, not ten percent. The administration's tariffs have no
Speaker 7: basis in logic, and they go against the basis of
Speaker 7: our two nations partnership. This is not the act of
Speaker 7: a friend. Today's decision will add to uncertainty in the
Speaker 7: Golds economy, and it will push up costs for American households.
Speaker 7: It is the American people who will pay the biggest
Speaker 7: price for these unjustified tariffs. This is why our government
Speaker 7: will not be seeking to impose reciprocal tariffs. We will
Speaker 7: not join a race to the bottom that leads to
Speaker 7: higher prices and slower growth. We will stand up for Australia.
Speaker 7: We will continue to make the strongest case for these
Speaker 7: unjustified tariffs to be removed from our exporters. Our existing
Speaker 7: free trade agreement with the United States contains dispute resolution mechanisms.
Speaker 7: We want to resolve this issue without resorting to using
Speaker 7: these as we do support continued constructive engagement with our
Speaker 7: friends in the United States. Our shared history, our friendship,
Speaker 7: our alliance. These are all bigger than a poor de
Speaker 7: But the.
Speaker 8: Australian people have every right to view this action.
Speaker 7: By the Trump administration as undermining our free and fair
Speaker 7: trading relationship and counter to the shared values that have
Speaker 7: always been at the heart of our two nations long
Speaker 7: standing friendship. This will have consequences for how Australians see
Speaker 7: this relationship. These are uncertain types, but Australians can be
Speaker 7: absolutely certain of this. Our government will always stand up
Speaker 7: for Australian jobs, Australian industry, Australian consumers and Australian values.
Speaker 7: That is why we've been crystal clear with the United
Speaker 7: States about what is not up for negotiation. Australia is
Speaker 7: a great trading nation. One in four of our jobs
Speaker 7: depends upon trade. But we will never trade away the
Speaker 7: things which make us the best country in the world.
Speaker 7: The pharmaceutical bearing and if its scheme is an Australian institution,
Speaker 7: a proud labor creation that my government has built on.
Speaker 7: The investments we're making in the PBS mean that life
Speaker 7: saving and life changing medicines which would otherwise cost people
Speaker 7: thousands of dollars, will be no more than twenty five dollars,
Speaker 7: a script under labor that will never be.
Speaker 8: Up for negotiation.
Speaker 7: We don't want our health system to be more American,
Speaker 7: we only want it to be more Australian. The same
Speaker 7: is true for agriculture. We have made it very clear
Speaker 7: to the United States that we will not compromise on biosecurity.
Speaker 7: We will not weaken the measures that protect our farmers
Speaker 7: and produce us from the risks of disease or contamination. Indeed,
Speaker 7: we've made it a priority to strengthen biosecurity because one
Speaker 7: of the things that makes Australian food and five are
Speaker 7: the best in the world is the people everywhere know
Speaker 7: that it stands for quality, it also stands for safety.
Speaker 7: Another key point was technology. Our government stands by our
Speaker 7: Media Bargaining Code. We strongly support local content in streaming services,
Speaker 7: so Australian's stories stay on Australian screens. And we have
Speaker 7: no intention of repealing the world leading legislation that we
Speaker 7: passed with overwhelming support that set the minimum age for
Speaker 7: social media at sixteen. That policy is about what's best
Speaker 7: for Australian children and Australian parents. These are our priorities.
Speaker 7: We stand up for Australia's interests.
Speaker 8: While we have an important.
Speaker 7: Trading relationship with the United States, it's important.
Speaker 8: To put this in some perspective.
Speaker 7: It only accounts for less than five percent of our exports.
Speaker 7: Other countries will be hit much harder by today's decision
Speaker 7: than Australia, and because it is across the board with
Speaker 7: no exemptions.
Speaker 8: Of course, there's.
Speaker 7: An argument actually about comparative impact of this decision made
Speaker 7: by President Trump that puts US in a position where
Speaker 7: I think no nation is better prepared than Australia for
Speaker 7: what has occurred today. For three years, my government has
Speaker 7: been working to make Australia's economy more resilient and our
Speaker 7: exports more diverse. We've deepened our economic engagement in Northeast Asia,
Speaker 7: Southeast Asia and India, the fastest growing region of the
Speaker 7: world in human history. We are implementing our Southeast Asia
Speaker 7: Economic Strategy developed by Nicholas Moore, and I thank him
Speaker 7: and give a shout out to him yet again for
Speaker 7: the extraordinary work that he did on being half of
Speaker 7: the nation that he loves. Our roadmap for economic engagement
Speaker 7: with India is what we launched here in Melbourne at
Speaker 7: Monash University just a month ago. This is about delivering
Speaker 7: for Australian businesses in what will be the third largest
Speaker 7: economy in the world. We've signed a new trade agram
Speaker 7: with the United Arab Emirates. A tribute to the guy
Speaker 7: on my left here for the nature that what that
Speaker 7: has done is open up the markets of the Middle East.
Speaker 7: Through the UAE, we're boosting exports of Australian beef and
Speaker 7: red meat, expanding trade with the UK, European Union and Indonesia.
Speaker 7: And of course we've cleared away over twenty billion dollars
Speaker 7: in trade impediments with China, backing local manufacturing with our
Speaker 7: Future Made in Australia Plan, investing in the skills, technology
Speaker 7: and energy to make more things here and stand on
Speaker 7: our own two feet. We're building on these actions today. First,
Speaker 7: we will strengthen our anti dumping regime to safeguard key
Speaker 7: sectors like steel, aluminium and manufacturing against unfair competition. Second,
Speaker 7: we will provide fifty million dollars to affected sectors, particularly
Speaker 7: through peak bodies such as the National Farmers Federation, to
Speaker 7: secure and grow new markets for their world class products.
Speaker 8: This work will be backed by five new.
Speaker 7: Business and investment missions to priority markets within the first
Speaker 7: one hundred days of our second term. Third, we will
Speaker 7: establish a new economic Resilience program through our National Reconstruction Fund.
Speaker 7: This will provide one billion dollars in zero interest loans
Speaker 7: for firms to capitalize on new export opportunities.
Speaker 8: Fourth, just as.
Speaker 7: We are already encouraging more people to buy Australian, our
Speaker 7: labor government will buy Australian too.
Speaker 8: This comes on the back of.
Speaker 7: The announcements that I may in port kemblack, for example,
Speaker 7: about procurement of Australian steel. But what this means is
Speaker 7: that Australian businesses will be front of the queue for
Speaker 7: government procurement and contracts, maximizing value for local businesses.
Speaker 8: And the taxpayer.
Speaker 7: And fitly, a labor government will establish a critical mineral
Speaker 7: strategic reserve. I'll have more to say on this over
Speaker 7: coming weeks. The world has thrown a light.
Speaker 8: At Australia over the past few years.
Speaker 7: We had COVID, the long tail of COVID, and then
Speaker 7: we had the impact of global inflation. We cannot control
Speaker 7: what challenges we face, but we can determine how we respond.
Speaker 7: Australia will always respond by defeat our national interest and
Speaker 7: our government will always deal with global challenges the Australian way,
Speaker 7: standing up for our national interest, backing our people and
Speaker 7: building for the future. We're here from the Foreign Minister
Speaker 7: and the Trade Minister, then happy to take a few questions.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Prime Minister. It's good to be
Speaker 1: here to respond to this announcement with both you and
Speaker 1: my colleague Senator Farrell Well. Today's decision underlines that we
Speaker 1: do live in an uncertain world and we understand that
Speaker 1: many Australians find that challenging. But what I would emphasize
Speaker 1: is that our country faces that increasingly uncertain world with independence,
Speaker 1: with resilience, and with more choices.
Speaker 8: And this is what we have.
Speaker 1: Been focused on over these last three years, doing the
Speaker 1: hard work of building common ground in more diversified partnerships,
Speaker 1: not just relying on what we've done in the past
Speaker 1: to keep working in a different world. So we are
Speaker 1: deepening our cooperation with traditional partners and allies. But we
Speaker 1: have also, as the Prime Minister has outlined, strengthened Australia's
Speaker 1: relationships across our region where our prosperity and our security
Speaker 1: are most on the line, with India that has overtaken
Speaker 1: the United States as our fourth largest trading partner, with
Speaker 1: Japan and Korea, with Southeast Asia, which will soon be
Speaker 1: the world's fourth largest economy, where we are implementing the
Speaker 1: Southeast Asian Economic Strategy to twenty forty that the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister described, and with the Pacific, where we have delivered
Speaker 1: transformational partnerships after the previous loss decade under Peter Dutton
Speaker 1: and the Coalition. I would also say we see from
Speaker 1: the decision today that some of the countries of our
Speaker 1: region are the hardest hit by these tariffs, and we
Speaker 1: do not underestimate the disruption the decisions will have on
Speaker 1: the economies of our region and the global system.
Speaker 10: But we face those.
Speaker 1: Challenges calmly and maturely. We certainly won't be picking fights
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. Our approach is to be credible and mature,
Speaker 1: to deal calmly with these challenges and to seize the
Speaker 1: opportunities that lie ahead. And we succeed succeed best in
Speaker 1: this pursuit when we stand together as Australians, when we
Speaker 1: stand up for Australians together. So I would say this,
Speaker 1: this is a day for anyone who is a political
Speaker 1: leader or who aspires to be a political leader, to
Speaker 1: be part of that unity and stand with us for Australia.
Speaker 11: Thank you, thanks Prime Minister, and thanks thanks Penny Alban.
Speaker 11: Easy government will do two things from this point onwards.
Speaker 11: Number one, we'll continue to engage with the United States
Speaker 11: to seek to remove these unfair ten percent tariffs on
Speaker 11: Australian goods. We believe that it's by negotiation, by discussion,
Speaker 11: by sitting down and explaining to people the issues at hand,
Speaker 11: that we can best present the case for Australia for
Speaker 11: these tariffies. On our program of expanding Australia's trade relationship
Speaker 11: in this three year term, we've introduced a new free
Speaker 11: trade agreement with the United Kingdom that's already doubled our
Speaker 11: trade with the United Kingdom in the case of beef,
Speaker 11: a five hundred percent increase. We've established a new free
Speaker 11: trade agreement with India that's already delivering significant benefits to
Speaker 11: both our agriculture and manufacturing sector, and we're on the
Speaker 11: cusp of another agreement to expand our relationship with India.
Speaker 11: Minister mentioned, we've got a new agreement with the United
Speaker 11: Arab Emirates. Think of the United Arab Emirates as the
Speaker 11: woolies in the Middle East, and we're getting every product
Speaker 11: in there tariff free. Then you can get it to
Speaker 11: all of the countries in that region. On Monday afternoon,
Speaker 11: I'm talking with my European counterpart. We all know what
Speaker 11: happened the last time we had discussions with the Europeans.
Speaker 11: I think things have changed and the opportunity to have
Speaker 11: further negotiations about a free trade agreement on better terms
Speaker 11: than have been previously offered now exists and we should
Speaker 11: take that opportunity. In the last month, I've spoken to
Speaker 11: all of our major trading partners and we're going to
Speaker 11: continue expanding our trade opportunities with them. I've also had
Speaker 11: the opportunity to speak to all of the affected industries.
Speaker 11: By these decisions, the Prime Ministers outlined the way in
Speaker 11: which we are going to continue to support those industries,
Speaker 11: but in particular push them out the door into new markets.
Speaker 10: That's what we've got to do.
Speaker 11: It's a change world, but we have to push Australian
Speaker 11: companies out into the world. Why is that well, because
Speaker 11: we know that if you're an export focused company, your
Speaker 11: profits are higher, but more importantly, the wages of your
Speaker 11: staff are higher. So we have now a renewed opportunity.
Speaker 11: People want to talk to us, we want to talk
Speaker 11: to them. It's all about expanding our opportunities to get
Speaker 11: our wonderful food, wine and manufacturing product into the rest
Speaker 11: of the world.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thanks very much done.
Speaker 7: We're going to go to Paul, then in Geira, then
Speaker 7: we'll sort of go to and.
Speaker 12: From You talk about bus decision having consequences to how
Speaker 12: Australians perceive for relationship. What are those consequences and given
Speaker 12: we've got a minimum techs out, do you consider that
Speaker 12: a relatively good deal or the best.
Speaker 10: We could have gone.
Speaker 7: There's no doubt that there's no one who's got a
Speaker 7: better deal and will see that themselves. That doesn't mean
Speaker 7: it's a good thing. It's very clear that President Trump
Speaker 7: was determined to go down this road. We have made
Speaker 7: very strong representations ministers, our ambassador and people in the embassy,
Speaker 7: people at departmental level. We have used every asset at
Speaker 7: our disposal. But what it does mean, it's a bit
Speaker 7: like what I was saying, Yes, say steel and aluminium.
Speaker 7: There's not more steel or olminium being produced in the
Speaker 7: United States today than there was in February.
Speaker 8: If you have a tariff across the board that has.
Speaker 7: A comparatively neutral position for imports coming in, and indeed
Speaker 7: some countries have higher tariffs. Candidate for example, which is
Speaker 7: another major exporter ofinium to the United States. This position
Speaker 7: is the minimum as ten percent. Norfolk Island, interestingly, is
Speaker 7: I think twenty nine percent. I'm not sure what Norfolk
Speaker 7: Island major exports are to the United States and why
Speaker 7: it's been singled out, but it has on the table
Speaker 7: which is there, but it is across the board. It's
Speaker 7: quite clear that the Trump administration was determined to do this.
Speaker 13: And we're going to bring in Jacob Greeban now, who
Speaker 13: is at Parliament House for us this morning. Jacob, it
Speaker 13: is difficult, I think, to think back to find another
Speaker 13: event on the global stage that has a potential to
Speaker 13: upend an Australian election campaign. What will the major parties
Speaker 13: be making of this this morning, Well.
Speaker 14: They've been bracing for this for some time, James. I
Speaker 14: think there was a really important comment by the Prime
Speaker 14: Minister in the Q and A part that we caught
Speaker 14: where he pointed out that no one has actually got
Speaker 14: a better deal than Australia, or another way of saying
Speaker 14: it is it could have been worse for us. We're
Speaker 14: actually only getting ten percent across the board. There doesn't
Speaker 14: appear to be any other country that is being hit
Speaker 14: less than that. So I think that's a really important
Speaker 14: political statement because he's going to come under attack from
Speaker 14: the opposition for not having done enough to avoid these tariffs,
Speaker 14: for not having had the connection with the White House,
Speaker 14: with Donald Trump himself in person of course Mody, the
Speaker 14: Japanese Prime Minister. They all made the trek and they
Speaker 14: are facing much larger tariffs than Australia is. So the
Speaker 14: Prime Minister, inasmuch as this is bad news, will be
Speaker 14: portraying this as a relative win. And he did make
Speaker 14: the point that comparatively, America is only five percent of
Speaker 14: our exports. Our nation is prepared and ready to counter
Speaker 14: the effects of this. They've put a billion dollars aside
Speaker 14: for loans to get some of our affected exporters into
Speaker 14: new markets. They're talking about a trade mission to all
Speaker 14: of these markets within one hundred days after the election.
Speaker 4: So they've got a.
Speaker 14: Plan, they say, and they're rolling it out to try
Speaker 14: and counter this. And I thought the other thing, James
Speaker 14: and Emma, the language was very strong. He came as
Speaker 14: close to saying Donald Trump is completely off the reservation
Speaker 14: as you can in diplomatic speak. Not only did he
Speaker 14: say this is not the act of a friend. It's
Speaker 14: a poor decision, totally unwarranted. And here's the killer. A
Speaker 14: reciprocal tariff on Australia would be zero, not ten percent,
Speaker 14: So the tariff has no basis in logic from the
Speaker 14: Prime Minister's point of view.
Speaker 15: Jacob, as we're speaking to you, we understand we do
Speaker 15: have the media conference with Anthony up an easy back,
Speaker 15: so I think we will possibly go to that right now.
Speaker 7: There's less action against its imports in the United States
Speaker 7: than Australia. That's an important point. We'll continue to engage
Speaker 7: constructively with President Trump and East administration.
Speaker 1: Can I just respond very briefly to two points. First,
Speaker 1: Australia has a consistent position. We believe in free and
Speaker 1: fair trade because we know trade fuels Australian jobs and
Speaker 1: Australian profits. So we think that is a good thing,
Speaker 1: and so we will always advocate with whomever for more
Speaker 1: open access to markets. The second point I'd make is
Speaker 1: the point the Prime Minister made in his opening statement.
Speaker 1: Our shared history, our friendship, our alliance, the US status
Speaker 1: is our most important and principal strategic partner. These are
Speaker 1: all bigger than this decision.
Speaker 10: Thank you. Latika. Just a couple of points.
Speaker 11: Can I make the distinction between what happened with China
Speaker 11: and what's happening here. When China imposed a two hundred
Speaker 11: and twenty percent tariff on Australian wine that killed wine
Speaker 11: exports the next day stone dead, That's not what's happened here.
Speaker 11: Australian wine will now apparently go into the United States
Speaker 11: at a ten percent tariff. We'll still continue to sell
Speaker 11: wine into the United States.
Speaker 10: Well, from what I can.
Speaker 11: See, that is not what the President Trump has done today.
Speaker 11: But let's put beef to one side. In respect of
Speaker 11: all of the products. We will continue to sell our
Speaker 11: product into the United States. What we're going to do
Speaker 11: is look for other markets as well to sell our
Speaker 11: products in. Now, you're right, the agreement with the European
Speaker 11: Union did fall over over beef imports into the EU.
Speaker 11: The world has changed as of today, the world has
Speaker 11: changed for Europe. Europe is now sadject to a much
Speaker 11: higher tariff into the United States. If they're sensible. If
Speaker 11: they're sensible, they will make us a better offer on
Speaker 11: the issues that made the agreement fall over last time,
Speaker 11: and we will get a free trade agreement with the EU,
Speaker 11: the largest economy in the world.
Speaker 7: We've got a couple more over here I've said Tom
Speaker 7: and Trudy than Charles, and then we'll go to this
Speaker 7: side of Tom.
Speaker 16: Do you have any early idea Europe this sort of
Speaker 16: economic kid astamily you can expect as a result of
Speaker 16: this car so you're confident that can be avoidable together
Speaker 16: And just quickly, if here is the pharmaceuticals and billion
Speaker 16: have been tarred out in the ten percent parents globally,
Speaker 16: is that a good outcome for Australia, given aside other
Speaker 16: explolts and those aero scers vis.
Speaker 7: Obviously I have more to say about pharmaceuticals very soon
Speaker 7: later this morning, to give you a bit of a
Speaker 7: tip off of where we're headed next.
Speaker 11: But we.
Speaker 7: We regard this because it's universal. Of course, will await
Speaker 7: an assessment to be fair to us. We're out of
Speaker 7: respect to you standing up less than half an hour
Speaker 7: after President Trump's press conference, where of course.
Speaker 8: Will analyze the impact.
Speaker 7: But importantly, no country that imports to the United States
Speaker 7: will have less tariffs than Australia. That's an important point
Speaker 7: of what has arisen out of today.
Speaker 8: Truth Just certainly back to the beef issue.
Speaker 17: Donald Trump seems to make a big sum of dance
Speaker 17: about Australia banning US beef imports here, is there any
Speaker 17: willingness from our side to loosen that over time or
Speaker 17: is that a redline for you know USB.
Speaker 7: Well what we have done in the negotiations as well.
Speaker 7: The beef issue was about mad cow disease to give
Speaker 7: it its colloquial name, and about all also the fact
Speaker 7: that beef to Australia couldn't be guaranteed whether it had
Speaker 7: also come from Canada or Mexico as well. So it
Speaker 7: was those issues that we're working through. Those issues are
Speaker 7: being worked through. There is currently frozen beef can come
Speaker 7: into Australia. We certainly, in the discussions we've had with
Speaker 7: the United States put a position that was consistent with
Speaker 7: ensuring our biosecurity is looked after, then we would give consideration.
Speaker 8: But that didn't progress and so that is where we
Speaker 8: are at this point.
Speaker 18: US Minister, how did you find out about the tariffs
Speaker 18: Australia would be receiving and given India, Japan, South Korea,
Speaker 18: Vietnam Cambodia have all received high tariffs, does this make
Speaker 18: our job as like minded democracies in the region harder
Speaker 18: back against China.
Speaker 7: There's no doubt that the response on a range of issues,
Speaker 7: but action on climate change as well as trade issues
Speaker 7: will affect the strategic competition that's here in the region.
Speaker 8: There's no question that that will occur, and.
Speaker 7: Countries will have their own assessments of that. We've been
Speaker 7: expecting this decision. We put a position to the United States.
Speaker 7: The United States responded, We responded to them.
Speaker 8: There's been a series of written to and fro if
Speaker 8: you like.
Speaker 7: There's been negotiations with mister Luttnik and with others in
Speaker 7: the United States as well, So this came as no
Speaker 7: surprise to us. We have prepared for a period of time.
Speaker 7: The response, a five point response that you will were
Speaker 7: announced this morning. We met as leaders last night and
Speaker 7: again had contact this morning with obviously the relevant ministers
Speaker 7: as well as our economic ministers just here.
Speaker 19: Given structural issues with the WTR, what confidence do you
Speaker 19: have that any complaints is really there to.
Speaker 20: Be progressed for one minutes of file.
Speaker 19: You walked away from negotiations last time with the EU.
Speaker 19: Will you walk away again if they won't offer greater
Speaker 19: market access.
Speaker 17: For our product?
Speaker 7: These take some time the wto We know that that's
Speaker 7: the case. Our free trade agreement with the United States
Speaker 7: does have dispute resolution mechanisms. We want this to be
Speaker 7: resolved in a way that avoids those contests. And if
Speaker 7: I can be so bald as the end, so on
Speaker 7: your behalf, we will always stand up for our national
Speaker 7: and enters. The agreement with the EU wasn't good enough,
Speaker 7: we walked away. If it's good enough, we'll sign up.
Speaker 8: Just here we're going just so.
Speaker 10: Test cats answer. The answer is yes, yeah, And how should.
Speaker 21: You include a strategic reserve of critical minimals that you
Speaker 21: could that be abardoning, which is in trying to get
Speaker 21: a better.
Speaker 7: View for Australia from the White House Australian strong position.
Speaker 7: We've got the whole periodic table just about in this country.
Speaker 8: That's a good thing.
Speaker 15: Peter Dutton's be on TGV already this morning, just rubbing
Speaker 15: your inability to get at the phone call as a
Speaker 15: signify failure.
Speaker 4: What is this strategy now from getting the.
Speaker 22: President on the phone and what a growth ingred morment.
Speaker 8: Can do to is to Australia's taste.
Speaker 7: Well, one is what I'd like is competed up in
Speaker 7: the stand up for Australia and the back Australia's national interest.
Speaker 7: This isn't a time for partisanship. I wouldn't have thought.
Speaker 7: But people will drive their own conclusions about his behavior
Speaker 7: that you've just indicated. That's consistent with last time around
Speaker 7: on our youuminium and steel, where mister Dutton came out
Speaker 7: and was critical of Australia, not critical of the United
Speaker 7: States for imposing these tariffs even though they were universal
Speaker 7: and across the board.
Speaker 8: And Greg Norman is of course the great Australian. I
Speaker 8: dinner with him last night. He's someone I've got to
Speaker 8: know over the years.
Speaker 7: He's my nominee on the Olympic Board for the Brisbane
Speaker 7: two thousand and thirty two Olympics. We are using every
Speaker 7: asset at our disposal, Ministers, people in departments, our embassy
Speaker 7: in Washington, d C, our business community links and our
Speaker 7: other links as well to advance Australia's national interests.
Speaker 21: You to play down your personal relationship with Donald Trump
Speaker 21: when it came to security in other settings, you know,
Speaker 21: you talk about dear friendship with that relationship.
Speaker 4: Is that new.
Speaker 23: Consistency and just back to Childs's question.
Speaker 21: We understand that talks have been ongoing, but when when
Speaker 21: did the White House give you that final confirmational mercy?
Speaker 8: On the first, no, on the second, we were very
Speaker 8: clear about where this was headed.
Speaker 4: Promise, what is.
Speaker 14: Your message to Australians, including notes inside the labor movement.
Speaker 10: We will see this as.
Speaker 2: Another reason for Australia to start doing that relationships.
Speaker 6: Including reconsidering all this.
Speaker 7: Our relationship with the United States is an important one
Speaker 7: for us in our defense, relationship with the United States
Speaker 7: as one that's in our interests.
Speaker 12: We've spoken to keep it around this morning, this announce.
Speaker 7: I've chosen to speak to you first. I came straight
Speaker 7: from straight down here with respect.
Speaker 4: Well, then when will you speak to him?
Speaker 24: Obviously you conveyed to human.
Speaker 6: Are you confident in advocate?
Speaker 7: I have spoken with Kevin Rudd on a daily basis
Speaker 7: over recent times, as have ministers. There are some who
Speaker 7: I make this point about Kevin Rudd. No one can
Speaker 7: question Kevin Rudd's work ethic. Kevin Rudd works relentlessly in
Speaker 7: Australia's national interest and he has developed very positive relationships
Speaker 7: with key people in the Trump administration.
Speaker 12: There seems to be some uncertainty about whether Australian Big
Speaker 12: expert you will be back.
Speaker 8: Have you or have any government officials had any.
Speaker 25: Conversation with the US officials about whether beef would be
Speaker 25: targeted and bed.
Speaker 9: Do we know this was coming.
Speaker 7: We have come straight from We've given you respect. Refer
Speaker 7: to previous answers coming by coming straight here.
Speaker 8: We are aware that beef has been an issue that's
Speaker 8: been As.
Speaker 7: I said to an earlier answer, this is one of
Speaker 7: the issues that we were negotiating over between Australia and
Speaker 7: the United States that did not reach an agreement because
Speaker 7: the United States did not reach an agreement with any
Speaker 7: nation I think trust.
Speaker 23: That question was if you have anything that a ban
Speaker 23: on thee was possible before today.
Speaker 8: We have been well, I refer to previous answer.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 23: Secondly, the Trump administration's listed tariff rays that other countries
Speaker 23: imposed on the US puts outand ten percent. You said,
Speaker 23: it's a big zero. So where has that number come from?
Speaker 23: It is it just a fake number they've made up.
Speaker 8: Well, they have imposed a minimum of ten.
Speaker 23: Percent at the rates that they say Australia.
Speaker 7: They have made a decision that there will be a
Speaker 7: ten percent tariff minimum from every nation. That's a political decision.
Speaker 7: This is not an economic decision.
Speaker 8: This is a political.
Speaker 23: Admistration number saying that Australia has an effective ten percent
Speaker 23: tarifreight on them.
Speaker 10: Is that a real number or not?
Speaker 23: How did they compilate that?
Speaker 7: Well, I think with respect, I did just answer that
Speaker 7: this is a minimum of ten percent that they have imposed.
Speaker 7: It's a political decision that the Trump administration have made.
Speaker 10: A big question.
Speaker 26: The society that have gone frump means what he says, And.
Speaker 10: We all heard them today say there was going to
Speaker 10: be a ban on USB as a midnight US time.
Speaker 10: So what information do you have it tells you that that's.
Speaker 8: Not having I didn't say that.
Speaker 7: I said that beef was a part of the negotiation
Speaker 7: between Australia and the United States in the written agreements
Speaker 7: that went between our two nations.
Speaker 8: It is one of the things that was discussed.
Speaker 7: We will of course seek further clarity about all of
Speaker 7: the decisions that are made, but the decision as well
Speaker 7: is to impose across the board tariffs on all goods
Speaker 7: entering the United States. We have been single here.
Speaker 27: It was here that you say it was an element
Speaker 27: of the discussions.
Speaker 22: That was an issue that was raised at any point
Speaker 22: before this announcement today.
Speaker 8: Did American officials say to Australia we are thinking about
Speaker 8: banning beef importance?
Speaker 10: Was that particular issue raised.
Speaker 4: In that way?
Speaker 7: There were a range of decisions made, including the United
Speaker 7: States seeking changes to the beef access regime to Australia.
Speaker 20: That was raised.
Speaker 28: Here.
Speaker 17: And as he spoke briefly about meeting with Greg Norman,
Speaker 17: but what advice did he give you on how best
Speaker 17: to manage Donald Trump.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what advice.
Speaker 7: I would give anyone I negotia with and who we
Speaker 7: have private discussions with, which is to not come to
Speaker 7: a press conference and talk about the details afterwards. Look,
Speaker 7: Greg Norman clearly is someone who is a proud Australian.
Speaker 7: He's someone who of course lives largely in Florida. He's
Speaker 7: someone with connections with the US administration, and we are
Speaker 7: engaging with Australians who have connections with the United States
Speaker 7: to advance our national interests.
Speaker 8: Last one, sir, he's Jaina Alan.
Speaker 27: Welcome alongside you on the campaign trail.
Speaker 8: Yes, thanks very much.
Speaker 29: The announcement obviously out of the United States in relation
Speaker 29: to tariffs. I do think this is a bad day
Speaker 29: for our country and it's not the treatment that Australians
Speaker 29: deserve because we have a very trusted, long standing and
Speaker 29: abiding relationship with the United States. It spends one hundred
Speaker 29: years and we have fought alongside and with the Americans
Speaker 29: in every major battle over that period of time. We
Speaker 29: have a special relationship with the United States and it
Speaker 29: hasn't been treated with respect by the administration or by
Speaker 29: the President. And the question now is what do we
Speaker 29: do to resolve this matter, and to do it quickly.
Speaker 29: It's clear to me that in the language that's come
Speaker 29: out of the administration that there is a discussion to
Speaker 29: take place, and it needs to take place as a
Speaker 29: matter of urgency, because as Prime Minister, I want to
Speaker 29: make sure that we can help our beef producers, make
Speaker 29: sure that we can help our manufacturers, make sure that
Speaker 29: we can grow our industry, and make sure that we
Speaker 29: can increase employment in this country. And we can do
Speaker 29: that through a normalized relationship in a trading sense with
Speaker 29: the United States, and obviously to expand other markets, which
Speaker 29: is exactly what a coalition government does and has as
Speaker 29: a priority and always has had. We believe very strongly
Speaker 29: in free trade. I've spoken this morning with three major
Speaker 29: beef producers here in Australia, two of whom are heavily
Speaker 29: involved in export to the United States and talking about
Speaker 29: what the impact will be on them and the plans
Speaker 29: for them and for their company, and obviously they're in
Speaker 29: negotiations with their counterparts in the United States.
Speaker 10: At the moment.
Speaker 29: It's obvious to us that there is more consumption than
Speaker 29: there is supply of beef out of the United States
Speaker 29: domestic market, so that the Americans can't produce enough beef
Speaker 29: to satisfy what is consumed by American consumers. So this
Speaker 29: deal is actually going to be bad for consumers in
Speaker 29: the United States because they require our beef for beef
Speaker 29: patties and for their market. It's also important to point
Speaker 29: out that there is no ban of beef coming from
Speaker 29: the United States into Australia. They need to meet the
Speaker 29: traceability requirements and they need to adhere to our strict
Speaker 29: conditions that we have in place. The next point that
Speaker 29: I would make is that we have a tunity in
Speaker 29: my judgment to do to start negotiations with the United
Speaker 29: States straight away. I think there can be a deal
Speaker 29: done very quickly with the administration, and I think it's
Speaker 29: important the Prime Minister apply himself to that immediately. I
Speaker 29: think it's obvious that we have and I've made this point,
Speaker 29: I think in a speech last year and again in
Speaker 29: January this year, there is a critical relationship between the
Speaker 29: United States and the United Kingdom in terms of our
Speaker 29: defense compact. We have troops in the north of our country,
Speaker 29: we have the Orchest Deal, we have the Aers Treaty.
Speaker 29: It is a long and abiding relationship and the core
Speaker 29: of an arrangement between US and the United States in
Speaker 29: resolving this matter will center around the defense relationship. The
Speaker 29: critical minerals that I spoke about again in my speech
Speaker 29: in January is an absolute must do in the relationship,
Speaker 29: and the United States to shore up at supply chains
Speaker 29: requires our critical minerals. So there is a natural point
Speaker 29: of leverage for us in the relationship. The Prime Minister
Speaker 29: hasn't been able to get a call or a meeting
Speaker 29: with President Trump, but that needs to change and he
Speaker 29: needs to do everything he can to leverage the ambassador
Speaker 29: and others to get the relationship normalized. It's obvious that
Speaker 29: the Prime Minister didn't know anything about this announcement until
Speaker 29: it was actually released to the press, which also speaks
Speaker 29: to the state of the relationship at the moment. So
Speaker 29: I want to make sure that we can as quickly
Speaker 29: as possible resolve this matter. I believe that we can,
Speaker 29: and I'm happy to take some questions. I just want
Speaker 29: to I just want to make this point first though,
Speaker 29: the government announced five measures, one strengthening anti dumping laws,
Speaker 29: which we strongly support, and we don't believe that the
Speaker 29: government should have weakened anti dum dumping.
Speaker 10: Laws in the first place.
Speaker 29: We support the fifty million dollars of export for export
Speaker 29: growth and also note though that the government has reduced
Speaker 29: EMDG funding and broader ex sports support across olds, trade
Speaker 29: in postings, etc. We support the one billion dollar Economic
Speaker 29: Resilience Program, but we believe that that is best admitted
Speaker 29: administered through the Export Finance Australia Organization. We do strongly support,
Speaker 29: obviously government to buy Australian and the Government has promised
Speaker 29: this already, of course, but it hasn't properly been put
Speaker 29: into action. In relation to government procurement processes, and the
Speaker 29: government talks about establishing a strategic reserve of critical minerals.
Speaker 10: But it's much more sophisticated than that.
Speaker 29: There is an arrangement to be arrived at and we've
Speaker 29: been working on this, but it is something that the
Speaker 29: government can resolve I think very quickly with the administration.
Speaker 29: We need to do that for our beef producers, we
Speaker 29: need to do it for every industry here and to
Speaker 29: protect the jobs in Australia. We need to get this
Speaker 29: sorted out as quickly as possible. And that's what exactly
Speaker 29: what we're dedicated to do.
Speaker 28: Seats on the lowest single run of these tariffs of
Speaker 28: anyone in the globe, of any one. How is that
Speaker 28: not a victory for our diplomats and for Anthony Albneasy.
Speaker 10: Well, the Prime Minister didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 29: It was first made known to him when it was
Speaker 29: publicly announced, So that will talk about the influence that
Speaker 29: the Prime Minister has in relation to this matter.
Speaker 10: I can say this much. I want success in the relationship.
Speaker 29: It's not going to happen if the Prime Minister finds
Speaker 29: out about things through the press. There needs to be
Speaker 29: a proper negotiation and a proper consultation. And ten percent
Speaker 29: is a significant impost and It may not be twenty
Speaker 29: six percent that other countries have faced, but I can
Speaker 29: tell you this, there are jobs that will be lost
Speaker 29: and there will be economic detriment to our country. And
Speaker 29: that's why I honestly believe when you read the statement,
Speaker 29: it says, and I'll just quote this short part from it,
Speaker 29: these tariffs will remain in a fair until such time
Speaker 29: as President Trump determines that the threat posed by the
Speaker 29: trade deficit and underlying non reciprocal treatment is satisfied, resolved,
Speaker 29: or mitigated. Now, that is a statement that we haven't
Speaker 29: seen before, and the focus that we should have as
Speaker 29: a government and as an alternative government is to do
Speaker 29: a deal on that basis as quickly as possible so
Speaker 29: that we can reduce the impact on Australians, on our
Speaker 29: industry and on our export capability.
Speaker 27: You said you would be prepared to have a fight
Speaker 27: with Donald Trump or any other world leader to advance
Speaker 27: Australia's interests, and the PM then called you, agro, is
Speaker 27: this something you will fight Donald Trump over?
Speaker 10: If elected?
Speaker 29: We go to this next election asking the Australian people
Speaker 29: to make a choice about who is best able to
Speaker 29: manage the economy and our national security, and I believe
Speaker 29: that I have the strength of leadership in the experience
Speaker 29: to be able to stand up and to fight for us,
Speaker 29: fight for our country, whether it's in relation to our
Speaker 29: national interest, in the trading space, in the national security space,
Speaker 29: or elsewhere. The Prime Minister has been weak and missing
Speaker 29: in action, and that's why we find ourselves in the
Speaker 29: position that we're in today.
Speaker 10: The Prime Minister has a.
Speaker 29: Pathway to an outcome here that can see a better
Speaker 29: final position for the relationship and for our country, but
Speaker 29: that has not been pursued so far. So it involves
Speaker 29: making sure that we can stand up and fight for
Speaker 29: our position, and I don't resolve from that. I just
Speaker 29: don't think the Prime Minister has the strength or the
Speaker 29: ability to stand up to a situation that is unacceptable
Speaker 29: to us. This is a bad day for our country
Speaker 29: and I want to resolve the matter. And the question
Speaker 29: for us now is who is best able to deal
Speaker 29: with this relationship, Who is best able to deal with
Speaker 29: an uncertain time in national security sense as well as
Speaker 29: an economic sense. And the times at the moment don't
Speaker 29: require a week leader, and mister Albinezi has demonstrated that
Speaker 29: again today.
Speaker 10: A lot of leaders.
Speaker 22: Would you have at your disposal to get a call
Speaker 22: with President Trump?
Speaker 20: If Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi hasn't been able to get
Speaker 20: one for the weeks months he's been trying, what do
Speaker 20: you have at your disposal that.
Speaker 29: You could pull? Well again, I think if you have
Speaker 29: a look at how we're able to negotiate with the
Speaker 29: Biden administration, how were we able to negotiate with the
Speaker 29: Trump administration. I dealt at a very high level with
Speaker 29: the Obama administration. We have the links and the ability
Speaker 29: to reach into the administration and there is a pathway
Speaker 29: for a deal to be done, the basis of which
Speaker 29: will be critical minerals and our defense relationship with the
Speaker 29: United States. Now, this is an important point, not one
Speaker 29: mentioned before now by the Prime Minister.
Speaker 10: And so if the Prime.
Speaker 29: Minister had leveraged this particular equity within the relationship before now,
Speaker 29: I think we were finding ourselves in a different position
Speaker 29: today because there is a necessity beef to be exported
Speaker 29: from Australia to meet the consumption needs of Americans, and
Speaker 29: so the argument that we're banning imports or that our
Speaker 29: export is surplus.
Speaker 10: To the needs of the Americans and driving down price.
Speaker 10: That is just not the case.
Speaker 29: Speaking to the beef producers this morning, the American herd
Speaker 29: numbers are at historic lows, and that means that they
Speaker 29: can't meet their own consumption requirements. And so we have
Speaker 29: an integral part to play in helping America. So we
Speaker 29: shouldn't be focusing on that being a game stopper. It's not,
Speaker 29: and it can be resolved. But you need to be
Speaker 29: able to have the strength of leadership to argue our corner,
Speaker 29: to fight for our position, to stand up to what
Speaker 29: is a bad decision for our country.
Speaker 10: And that's exactly what I've.
Speaker 8: Just on national security.
Speaker 30: You're on Mick mlloy's program yesterday and you were joking
Speaker 30: about the noise made by the Collins Class submarines. You said, quote,
Speaker 30: you can hear them rattling, rattling down the coast. That
Speaker 30: comment was edited out of the transcript your office sent out.
Speaker 30: Are the Collins Class not fit for purpose? And if so,
Speaker 30: is that really a laughing matter?
Speaker 29: Well, I haven't seen the transcript, shouln't be edited it out,
Speaker 29: and it was a jovial conversation with mc maloy as
Speaker 29: you as you would expect. I've been very clear, and
Speaker 29: I think if you have a look at the transcript
Speaker 29: and what I've said otherwise in relation to the Colins class,
Speaker 29: they are best in class, but they run out of
Speaker 29: work in the late twenty thirties early twenty forties, which
Speaker 29: is why the government's inability to provide the upgrade is
Speaker 29: an outrage. And Richard Marles has just sort of dropped
Speaker 29: out there that it's not going to be a full
Speaker 29: life of type extension for the Colins class, and I
Speaker 29: think that is a national disgrace because we need that capability.
Speaker 10: When we negotiated with.
Speaker 29: The United States in the United Kingdom to achieve the
Speaker 29: Orcus outcome, we did so knowing that firstly, and the
Speaker 29: Americans were acutely aware of this, that the work that
Speaker 29: has been done on the Colins class submarine at the
Speaker 29: moment is hand in glove with the work of the
Speaker 29: Americans in our other partners, and we negotiated a successful
Speaker 29: outcome that was in our country's best interest in relation
Speaker 29: to UCUS, because the latest narration, Virginia Class and the
Speaker 29: Stude class ultimately are going to be fit for purpose
Speaker 29: and best for us.
Speaker 10: So I think a joke with Big Blowy should be looked, Jo,
Speaker 10: we're here in Perth today.
Speaker 22: You've been criticized by Collie residents though for not having
Speaker 22: a discussion with them and hearing their concerns about nuclear power.
Speaker 22: Will you commit to going out and having a discussion
Speaker 22: with locals out there and then if I may. You
Speaker 22: launched the Piers campaign last night and cost of living
Speaker 22: was another big one. Are you too easily dismissing what
Speaker 22: five hundred dollars could do to a family in a
Speaker 22: couple of years time.
Speaker 29: Look, the choice that the election is about the Prime
Speaker 29: Minister's plan, which is seventy cents a day tax cut
Speaker 29: and not starting for fifteen months, or our plan, which
Speaker 29: I think will help people in Collie and Pierce in
Speaker 29: Wa right across the country.
Speaker 10: Our plan is not seventy cents a day in fifteen
Speaker 10: months time.
Speaker 29: It's a twenty five cent per leater reduction in petrol
Speaker 29: and diesel, which is going to save an average family
Speaker 29: filling up their car twice a week coming into the
Speaker 29: city from out of suburbs and regional areas. It's going
Speaker 29: to say the thirty bucks a week. And that's a
Speaker 29: big difference between what we've got on the table and
Speaker 29: what the Labor Party's.
Speaker 10: Got on ignore.
Speaker 31: Can I just ask you in relation to the fighting comment,
Speaker 31: does that extend to moving to the WTO in relation
Speaker 31: to this? And also you talked about minerals and defense
Speaker 31: being on the table as part of a deal. Can
Speaker 31: you just go into a bit more detail around where
Speaker 31: you see defense as being part of a deal on it?
Speaker 29: Well, the Americans need to continue to manufacture, and I
Speaker 29: also want to continue to develop our defense manufacturing capability
Speaker 29: here in Australia, and the government has walked away from that.
Speaker 29: There are many companies here in Australia, part of the
Speaker 29: twenty nine thousand small businesses who have closed over the
Speaker 29: last three years under this government, who have been in
Speaker 29: the defense space, and our capabilities domestically have been diminished
Speaker 29: by this government's lack of investment. So I think it
Speaker 29: again is a win win in the relationship because I
Speaker 29: want to sell what we're manufacturing here into the United
Speaker 29: States and the United States is a willing buyer for
Speaker 29: much of that product and we already see it with
Speaker 29: some companies, but how can we scale it up?
Speaker 10: And so that's one of the opportunities that's on the
Speaker 10: table before us.
Speaker 29: Now we have a huge opportunity to work with the
Speaker 29: United States on critical minerals. But at the moment there
Speaker 29: are distortions that take place in the prices. There are
Speaker 29: nations who are shortening the position of critical minerals to
Speaker 29: their own advantage, and that makes the investment proposition more
Speaker 29: difficult for those companies to.
Speaker 10: Produce and to manufacture.
Speaker 29: So the government has to work out what that compact
Speaker 29: looks like with the producers, with the miners, and that's
Speaker 29: exactly what we would do. And that's of huge benefit
Speaker 29: to the United States and a huge financial benefit to Australia,
Speaker 29: and that's why it's a no brainer. But the Prime
Speaker 29: Minister hasn't spoken a word about it.
Speaker 8: Mister Dutton, do you think you could have achieved a
Speaker 8: different outcome?
Speaker 29: I do believe that we could have achieved a different outcome. Firstly,
Speaker 29: I think firstly, I think there's no doubt that we
Speaker 29: would have had greater connection and greater communication with the
Speaker 29: White House, and we demonstrated that only a few years ago. Secondly,
Speaker 29: we had the ability to talk about the relationship in
Speaker 29: a more complete way, and that is what are the
Speaker 29: elements that are of interest to the United States. It
Speaker 29: is the defense relationship, which is absolutely critical in this century.
Speaker 10: We know that we live in a very uncertain time.
Speaker 29: Seeing what's happening in Europe, You're seeing what's happening in
Speaker 29: the Middle East, You're seeing what's happening in the South
Speaker 29: China Sea.
Speaker 10: It is an incredibly uncertain time.
Speaker 29: And mister Alberanezi himself points this out and then takes
Speaker 29: eighty billion dollars out of defense. So I think there
Speaker 29: are opportunities for us, and I think that is one.
Speaker 17: Are you willing to commit that as Prime Minister you
Speaker 17: would get these tariffs removed?
Speaker 29: Look, as I said before, the different the choice that
Speaker 29: Australians have at this election is between the continuation of
Speaker 29: the disaster of the Orbanezia government, which has been bad
Speaker 29: for families, bad for the economy, and bad and bad
Speaker 29: for the international relationships that we have. On the other hand,
Speaker 29: what I offer to the Australian people, my team offers
Speaker 29: to the Australian people is stability and proven performance. We
Speaker 29: have the ability to manage the economy, we have the
Speaker 29: ability to manage our national security needs, and we have
Speaker 29: an ability to make sure that we can get a
Speaker 29: better deal for Australia which is exactly what we do.
Speaker 10: Find print ms done.
Speaker 32: According to the fine print of these tariffs announced this morning,
Speaker 32: there will be certain minerals not available in the US
Speaker 32: that won't be impacted by these tariffs. So if you
Speaker 32: can't negotiate with critical minerals, what else are you putting
Speaker 32: on the table to get a deal with Donald Trump?
Speaker 32: What else are you willing to negotiate with.
Speaker 29: There is an absolute deal to be done here if
Speaker 29: the Prime Minister had the strength of leadership and the
Speaker 29: ability to be able to do it. But he hasn't
Speaker 29: even spoken about the critical minerals or the defense element
Speaker 29: to the relationship. It's the most integral part of our
Speaker 29: relationship with the United States, and we can leverage a
Speaker 29: much better outcome if we had been speaking with the
Speaker 29: Americans about this from January twenty or probably before that.
Speaker 8: Don Farrell did put critical minerals on the table.
Speaker 10: Don Farrell has not been able to achieve anything.
Speaker 29: That much is obvious, and neither put critical Neither has
Speaker 29: Anthony Alberici.
Speaker 10: This is the problem for our country.
Speaker 9: When you talk about the defense relationship, would you be
Speaker 9: willing to put key aspects of the relationship the presence
Speaker 9: of American troops here, the Aucust deal purchases from the
Speaker 9: United States.
Speaker 8: Would you put that on the table to get a
Speaker 8: better deal on tariffs.
Speaker 29: We've already got that in place. In fact, that was
Speaker 29: negotiated under our government. So we've got obviously a very
Speaker 29: strong relationship in relation to August Pillar two as well.
Speaker 29: Don't forget which involves AI, it involves satellite, it involves
Speaker 29: GPS technologies. I mean, there are many elements to it,
Speaker 29: including critical minerals, and that was always envisaged as as
Speaker 29: part of August two. So we've already got that on
Speaker 29: the table, and I think and well we've got well,
Speaker 29: we're not trading anything away. We want to enhance the
Speaker 29: relationship and I believe that we're the only alternative at
Speaker 29: this election that can achieve the better outcomes.
Speaker 26: Mister Dutton, say, in a bit over a month's time,
Speaker 26: you're the Prime Minister and you secure a phone call
Speaker 26: with Donald Trump.
Speaker 10: What exactly do you say on that phone court?
Speaker 26: Given it's unlikely there will be exemptions before them, what
Speaker 26: exactly do you say on that phone call?
Speaker 10: And what do you achieve in that phone court?
Speaker 29: Well, first point is that I think there is a
Speaker 29: possibility that the Prime Minister can negotiate an outcome within
Speaker 29: a matter of weeks, and I think that's really essential
Speaker 29: to focus on here. The ingredients for a successful arrangement
Speaker 29: negotiation with the US are there in front of us,
Speaker 29: and I've outlined some of them this morning. But the
Speaker 29: Prime Minister has to get a phone call now. He
Speaker 29: has to make sure that Kevin Rudd can actually get
Speaker 29: into the West Wing. He has to make sure that
Speaker 29: there is a discussion about how we can enhance this relationship.
Speaker 29: And I strongly believe that we can and I think
Speaker 29: he can do that quickly, and I think that's the
Speaker 29: main focus.
Speaker 24: For us now for you just on doing a deal
Speaker 24: the news media Bargaining Code and raising the social media
Speaker 24: age limit who've been identified as grievances by the US.
Speaker 24: You supported the social media laws last year. What guarantees
Speaker 24: can you give that you won't resile from cracking down
Speaker 24: on those big tech platforms to curry favor with the trumpet.
Speaker 29: Both both are non negotiable, so I just make that
Speaker 29: very clear we will not be negotiating on that basis.
Speaker 29: I fought for a long time for kids to be
Speaker 29: safe online and going back to the Obama administration. I
Speaker 29: worked with the Attorney General in that administration, as I
Speaker 29: did with Bill Barr as the Attorney General in the
Speaker 29: forty fifth presidency under President Trump, and I want to
Speaker 29: make sure that we can put in place a safe
Speaker 29: environment where our kids can go online, mix with their friends,
Speaker 29: and live a safe life. So I'm absolutely non negotiable
Speaker 29: in that regard, and in relation to the other elements,
Speaker 29: We're not negotiating on that basis. There are other elements
Speaker 29: of the relationship which are important both the United States
Speaker 29: and to us. They are in our mutual best interests,
Speaker 29: and they center around the defense relationship and the trade relationship,
Speaker 29: including on beef.
Speaker 10: More broadly, the mining sector.
Speaker 15: There is concern in the Pilborough about the impact of
Speaker 15: secure jobs, better pay and multi employer bargaining.
Speaker 10: They would like an answer yes or no, are you
Speaker 10: going to actually.
Speaker 12: Repeal those laws.
Speaker 29: Well, we've said what our position is in relation to
Speaker 29: industrial relations. But I just make this point about where
Speaker 29: Tanya Plibasse and Anthony Albanezi are at the moment. They
Speaker 29: have taken a position to support the Greens in inner
Speaker 29: city Sydney and Melbourne to protect those seats and They've
Speaker 29: abandoned the people of Wa.
Speaker 10: That's what's happened.
Speaker 29: So why would ten put off a decision to make
Speaker 29: three thousand jobs continue here, allow three thousand jobs to
Speaker 29: continue here in relation to the Northwest Shelf until the
Speaker 29: thirty first of May. If this was going to be
Speaker 29: a good decision for Wa, why would ten you put
Speaker 29: the decision off until after the election.
Speaker 10: And what it demonstrates to the people of Western Australia is.
Speaker 29: That Anthony Oberenzi is no Mark McGowan, He's not even
Speaker 29: close to Roger Cook. Anthony Oberenzi is a threat to Wa,
Speaker 29: to mining, to jobs and to economic growth in this state.
Speaker 29: And if that's the case, if that's the case, that
Speaker 29: he's elected with Adam band after the election, I promise
Speaker 29: you they will be the most anti mining government in
Speaker 29: our country's history since the Albanesi government of today.
Speaker 19: Can you answer just on defense, smister Dutton, you've spoken
Speaker 19: this morning about it it being up for negotiation. Can
Speaker 19: you be specific what exactly in our defense relationship is
Speaker 19: up for negotiation?
Speaker 29: So in relation to the critic mineral aspect, which is
Speaker 29: I think a key focus for us, the critical minerals
Speaker 29: that we produce. Here are key elements in the manufacturing
Speaker 29: of the defense industry that keeps the United States running.
Speaker 29: And when you look at what we provided to Ukraine,
Speaker 29: or what Canada has, or what the United Kingdom has
Speaker 29: or in the United States has, our elements go into
Speaker 29: the key production of some of those key weapons systems,
Speaker 29: and that is an integral part for the United States.
Speaker 29: When you look at the global map and you look
Speaker 29: at where these deposits are held, the Americans have very
Speaker 29: few options. And that's why I think it is an
Speaker 29: absolutely integral part to the negotiation.
Speaker 8: Anything else in defense.
Speaker 29: I think there are many elements to it, but I
Speaker 29: think critical minerals is the most obvious one, and I
Speaker 29: think the Americans have expressed as much. It's just that
Speaker 29: the Prime Minister hasn't spent a moment thinking about it.
Speaker 29: And if it had been able to get a call
Speaker 29: with the President, then perhaps it could have been a negotiation.
Speaker 10: Your discussion about it.
Speaker 19: Can you be specific other than critical minerals, What in
Speaker 19: the defense relationship are you willing to negotiate?
Speaker 29: Well, I spoke before about what we're producing here in Australia. Now,
Speaker 29: so defense industry here in wa at Henderson in South
Speaker 29: Australia at Osborne, right across the defense network. Here in Australia,
Speaker 29: we have enormous capacity to contribute to the United States
Speaker 29: in a very uncertain time and providing assurances in relation
Speaker 29: to their surface fleet and their subsurface fleet. All of
Speaker 29: that is something that Australia brings to the table. And
Speaker 29: I think there are many elements to withdraw something.
Speaker 28: If you won't take something out of the relationship, if
Speaker 28: you won't say get out of Darwin, or if there
Speaker 28: isn't a price on it, Donald Trump will laugh you
Speaker 28: out of the room.
Speaker 29: Tim.
Speaker 10: I just don't think that.
Speaker 29: People, if you read the language, understand what is on
Speaker 29: the table before us. There is a pathway here to
Speaker 29: resolve what is a bad issue and a bad outcome
Speaker 29: for our country, and the deal is there to be done,
Speaker 29: but the Prime Minister hasn't been capable of doing it.
Speaker 29: I want to make sure that we can stand up
Speaker 29: for our country's best interests. And what we're saying is
Speaker 29: that if there had been a normalized relationship, firstly, there
Speaker 29: would have been a discussion and engagement. Secondly, the Prime
Speaker 29: Minister would have known about it before it was announced
Speaker 29: to the rest of the world, and that shows where
Speaker 29: the state of the relationship is at the moment.
Speaker 20: In February, he described Donald Trump as a big thinker
Speaker 20: and that he brought gravitas to international affairs. Would you
Speaker 20: still describe the president that way? And secondly, there is
Speaker 20: someone in your orbit who's also in the Trump world orbit,
Speaker 20: and that's gena Ryan Hart. Would she be someone that
Speaker 20: you would look to for help if you won the election?
Speaker 10: Well, in relation to are the comments I made?
Speaker 29: I think they were in the context of the hostages
Speaker 29: being released from Gaza and the fact that that had
Speaker 29: been negotiated before.
Speaker 10: The inauguration had taken place on January twenty, and I
Speaker 10: think take over Gaza, And I think in relation to the.
Speaker 29: The fact that there was a negotiation essentially taking place
Speaker 29: to release those hostages before January twenty was a pretty
Speaker 29: significant event. And I think those families were happy. I'm
Speaker 29: sure they were for the release of their loved ones.
Speaker 29: So I think the focus today is on how we
Speaker 29: turn a bad situation into a much better outcome for
Speaker 29: our country. The Prime Minister doesn't have the ability to
Speaker 29: do that. I think over the next few weeks, if
Speaker 29: he applies himself to it. There can be a deal
Speaker 29: to be done, but we need to make sure that
Speaker 29: we act in our country's bestial.
Speaker 27: That sounds a bit like cowtowing. Frankly, it sounds a
Speaker 27: bit like you're trying to offer the Americans more. And
Speaker 27: Alberanezi and Farrell tried the critical Minerals deal. They couldn't
Speaker 27: get it off the ground. So why are you going
Speaker 27: to make a difference?
Speaker 10: Andrew?
Speaker 29: Again, if you look at what we were able to
Speaker 29: do in government, we were able to negotiate an outcome
Speaker 29: with Trump Mark one and there was an exemption for
Speaker 29: our country, and a coalition government did that because we
Speaker 29: were able to get access to the administration. We were
Speaker 29: able to talk to the key players and the people
Speaker 29: of influence in the sphere of the West Wing and
Speaker 29: that achieved an outcome for our country. Now this Prime
Speaker 29: Minister hasn't been able to do that, and we need
Speaker 29: to look at the decision that's been made which is
Speaker 29: bad for our country and I condemn it. But the
Speaker 29: question is what do we do now to rectify the
Speaker 29: situation and turn it into a positive for our country.
Speaker 29: There's no doubt in my mind that we can do that.
Speaker 29: The Prime Minister has it surely in front of him
Speaker 29: to be able to do over the course of the
Speaker 29: next few weeks, and that's an outcome that will be
Speaker 29: in the better interest of our country.
Speaker 19: Question, will you commit to going to Collie on the
Speaker 19: campaign trail to just discuss new clear with the community.
Speaker 29: I've been to well, just in relation to Collie, I've
Speaker 29: been to Collie before. There are seven locations around the country.
Speaker 29: There are seven locations around the country, and I won't
Speaker 29: be able to get to all of them, but I
Speaker 29: do know that when you speak to people in regions
Speaker 29: fluting in the hunter in New South Wales, for example,
Speaker 29: they know the workers there know that when coal comes
Speaker 29: to an end, there's no shopping mall to work in,
Speaker 29: there's no barista course that they can take that's going
Speaker 29: to give them a job to provide support to their family.
Speaker 29: They know that heavy industry will leave the still manufacturing
Speaker 29: can't survive without secure and reliable energy. The local foundry
Speaker 29: doesn't work without the base of that industry in place.
Speaker 29: So they know that what we're offering is the ability
Speaker 29: to transform those communities and to build it up as
Speaker 29: we're seeing in the United States.
Speaker 10: Given that it's.
Speaker 29: Topical today when you look at Apple, and you look
Speaker 29: at Oracle, and you look at all of these companies
Speaker 29: who are negotiating for the data centers now and the
Speaker 29: huge requirements around AI, they are not talking to our country.
Speaker 29: And I want them to come here. I want that
Speaker 29: industry to grow and I want to make sure that
Speaker 29: we can have strong, reliable, clean and cheaper energy. And
Speaker 29: that's exactly what we've got on offer at this election.
Speaker 29: The Prime Minister is saying to Australians, vote for him,
Speaker 29: vote for Anthony Alberisi and vote for Adam Band.
Speaker 10: You'll get a guarantee of higher.
Speaker 29: Electricity prices, but not just that there's a prospect increasingly
Speaker 29: blackouts and brownouts under us. There will be cheaper there
Speaker 29: will be cheaper electricity, it will be cleaner and it
Speaker 29: will be reliable.
Speaker 6: Laws And that was Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaking to
Speaker 6: the media in Perth as part of campaigning for more
Speaker 6: on this. We've got ABC presenter Greg Jennet in our
Speaker 6: Canberra studio starting Greg that this is not a good thing,
Speaker 6: that it's in fact a bad day.
Speaker 25: But he went much further and I know time is
Speaker 25: limited here, Dan, so I'll keep this really concise. But
Speaker 25: we have a conspicuous and obvious point of difference here
Speaker 25: between the government and the coalition on what I would
Speaker 25: describe as ring fencing of defense and the security relationship
Speaker 25: with the United States.
Speaker 10: So Orcus is.
Speaker 25: One part of that, buying weapons, systems and the like.
Speaker 25: The government has put that outside of these trade discussions
Speaker 25: or negotiations. Peter Dutton not so he's enticing us into
Speaker 25: this idea that it could be used as a bargaining chip.
Speaker 25: So security and defense should be used in an appeal
Speaker 25: to Donald Trump for what he calls a deal that
Speaker 25: is there to be done. Now this will require further
Speaker 25: analysis and teasing out in the days ahead in this campaign,
Speaker 25: but I'll just leave you with that thought, Dan, a
Speaker 25: very obvious point of difference emerging.
Speaker 6: Greg Jennet there in Parliament House. More analysis right throughout
Speaker 6: the day, and there's more on the ABC News app
Speaker 6: and on ABC I View. I'm Dan Borscher. That's all
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