Australia election 2025 live: Dutton vows to cut 80,000 international students claiming it will reduce housing demand; Labor plans to cut home battery costs
Source: The Guardian | Published: April 5, 2025, 11:45 p.m.
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Littleproud says PM’s ‘disparaging comments’ about Trump may have affected tariff decision
Nationals leader David Littleproud says the US and Australia needs “relationship reset” after Donald Trump’s tariff announcement this week.
We’ve got a prime minister that unfortunately can’t even get a phone call with the president, and I sense that’s probably because of the personal disparaging comments he’s made about President Trump in the past…
The prime minister’s made disparaging comments about President Trump previously, and there’s no way in the world that his advisors haven’t dropped that in his ear somewhere along the line.
You need to be able to get in that room.
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