April 7, 2025 • 7 mins
There's a new twist in Donald Trump's trade war. The US President is threatening an extra 50 per cent tariff on China.
It's Day 12 of the federal election race with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton set to go head-to-head in Sydney.
Thousands of New South Wales doctors working in the public hospital system will this morning walk off the job for 72 hours over pay and working conditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a new twist in Donald Trump's trade war this morning,
with the US President threatening an extra fifty percent tariff
on China. The retaliatory move comes off the back of
another volatile day on US and European markets, which recorded
losses in the billions. Let's go live to US correspondent
Rob Scott and Rob Trump's tariff threat to China putting
(00:24):
the rest of the world on notice.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, it certainly is David the President making it clear
in no uncertain terms and unless the world is ready
and willing to play by his rules, he is happy
to ratchet up the pressure. The first world leader to
try to make a better deal, the first world leader
to come and visit him since he announced those tariffs.
Is Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Mettin now, who they are
meeting as we go to, where the Prime Minister hoping
(00:46):
to get a better deal than the seventeen percent tariffs
that have already been slapped on all Israeli imports into
the United States. Of course, this meeting comes just after
Donald Trump said he is happy to slap an extra
fifty percent tariffs on all Chinese goods if China doesn't
immediately remove it's thirty four percent tariffs that it imposed
just a couple of days ago. This escalating trade war,
(01:09):
as you mentioned, is decimating world markets. The US share
market has had an incredibly volatile day to day, tumbling
for the third day in a row. Similar story across
Asia and the European indexes and the ASX is also
expected to open significantly down in the next couple of hours,
of course, coming after that one hundred and sixty billion
(01:29):
dollars worth of value was wiped just yesterday. Now, the
President has had another swipe at Australia today. He has
reposted a social media post from a senator in a
big beef state here basically having a crack at Australia
for all the barriers it has thrown up stopping American
beef imports into Australia. But Donald Trump is digging in.
(01:51):
He is refusing to soften his approach. He actually says
his approach is starting to work, with some fifty odd
countries reaching out hoping to have a meeting with him soon.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
David, all right, thanks for the update there.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Rob Scott in Los Angeles, well, a granny flat was
the scene of a vicious stabbing in Sydney's West last night.
A forty seven year old man with stab wounds was
found in the Penrith home earlier today. He was taken
to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition. A twenty nine
year old woman was arrested nearby in the same suburb.
She's under police guard at Nepean Hospital. Officers investigating think
(02:24):
the pair are known to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's day twelve of the federal election race, with both
Anthony Albanesi and Peter Dutton set to go head to
head in Sydney. Let's go live to Josh Martin and
Cambra this morning and Josh, they're set for their first
live media debate at the race.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Morning David and many people are saying this is make
or break. At seven thirty tonight the News Corpse People's
Forum will get under way. The PM needs to continue
his momentum. He's had a good first week on the campaign.
The polls are behind him. He had a good News
Corp News poll yesterday and he's made a number of
announcements on Medicare. Peter Dutton needs to claw back ground
(03:01):
after a horror first week. Many are saying it's been
his worst week as Opposition leader, and it's come at
the worst time during the campaign. There's only two weeks
until pre poll and postal voting begin and less than
four weeks until the election day proper Today, the Prime
Minister will announce a one billion dollar mental health package
in Sydney this morning to upgrade or open one hundred
(03:25):
mental health centers around the nation. Peter Dutton will also
be in Sydney hitting key seats. He's yet to visit
Benelong reading Gilmour in New South Wales, which will be
key to him winning the keys to the Lodge, and
he'll be looking to put the policies he dumped yesterday
behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Of course he's scrapped.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He's moved to make public servants go back to the
office and he's scrapped his public service cut. So David
a key debate tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yep, silly will be thanks for that, Josh Well.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Police are trying to find one more man after a
security guard impersonation sagare at the Melbourne Grand Prix. It's
alleged three men snuck into Albert Park without proper security accreditation,
wearing high viz jackets and landing themselves in areas restricted
to the public. Two eighteen year olds have now been
arrested and charged, with officers still looking for one more. Well,
(04:15):
thousands of New South Wales doctors working in the public
hospital system will this morning walk off the job for
seventy two hours over pay and working conditions.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Five thousand doctors.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Are expected to take part in a three day historic
walkout fighting for a thirty percent pay rise. A dozen
Sydney hospitals will be hit, the worst affected Westmead, Saint George,
Prince of Wales and RPA. The Doctors' Union says staffing
levels will be the same as on a public holiday
and patients won't be in any danger and Sydney Ferries
will also be out of action from eleven am to
(04:47):
one pm due to an industrial matter as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Shocking footage of teen bandits breaking their way into the
control room of Sydney train has surfaced online. They're seen
trying to tamper with the trolls and later hanging off
the train as it travels over the Harbour Bridge. The
video was posted on social media As police now investigate well, guns, tasers,
knuckle dusters and drugs have been seized at one address
(05:14):
on the Gold Coast, Task Force Maxima clamping down on
a home in Bigger Waters where they found twenty weapons, steroids,
illegal drugs plus fifteen thousand dollars in cash. A fifty
two year old man was arrested and charged with twenty
eight offences and his jud to face court in May.
While sin kild As Jack Higgins isn't backing down after
(05:36):
his anti Adelaide tirade, the Saints are setting up in
the City of Churches ahead of this week's gather around.
Higgins has earned the wrath of the city after saying
he'll probably be staying inside playing video games with his
mates instead of seeing the sites. Adelaide Crow's star Darcy
Foggity blasted Higgins's faux pass, saying he is more than
(05:56):
welcome to make a quick exit. Mainia's top chief is
reportedly launching a bid to still gather.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Around from Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Grant O'Brien, who's also the Appellles Tourism chairman, has confirmed
he's having informal discussions with league bosses. He's reportedly gunning
for a takeover in twenty twenty twenty eight to coincide
with the Devil's first season well. The cost of designing
the new five dollar note has been revealed this morning,
new figures placing the process at five hundred and seven
(06:28):
thousand dollars in total.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The Reserve Bank confirmed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Staff travel to Alice, Springs Broom, Bathurst, Hobart and Shepperdon
to meet with First Nations communities and the design is
still in that development stage. I'll check in Tuesday's whether
now and Brisbane partly cloudy twenty eight degrees, Sydney shower
two and twenty three, Canberra partly cloudy twenty two degrees,
Melbourne cloudy and nineteen degrees, Hobart cloudy in eighteen, Adelaide
(06:55):
becoming sonny in twenty three, Perth cloud clearing and twenty
seven degrees, and Darwin a shower or two and thirty
three degrees
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a new twist in Donald Trump's trade war this morning,
with the US President threatening an extra fifty percent tariff
on China. The retaliatory move comes off the back of
another volatile day on US and European markets, which recorded
losses in the billions. Let's go live to US correspondent
Rob Scott and Rob Trump's tariff threat to China putting
(00:24):
the rest of the world on notice.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, it certainly is David the President making it clear
in no uncertain terms and unless the world is ready
and willing to play by his rules, he is happy
to ratchet up the pressure. The first world leader to
try to make a better deal, the first world leader
to come and visit him since he announced those tariffs.
Is Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Mettin now, who they are
meeting as we go to, where the Prime Minister hoping
(00:46):
to get a better deal than the seventeen percent tariffs
that have already been slapped on all Israeli imports into
the United States. Of course, this meeting comes just after
Donald Trump said he is happy to slap an extra
fifty percent tariffs on all Chinese goods if China doesn't
immediately remove it's thirty four percent tariffs that it imposed
just a couple of days ago. This escalating trade war,
(01:09):
as you mentioned, is decimating world markets. The US share
market has had an incredibly volatile day to day, tumbling
for the third day in a row. Similar story across
Asia and the European indexes and the ASX is also
expected to open significantly down in the next couple of hours,
of course, coming after that one hundred and sixty billion
(01:29):
dollars worth of value was wiped just yesterday. Now, the
President has had another swipe at Australia today. He has
reposted a social media post from a senator in a
big beef state here basically having a crack at Australia
for all the barriers it has thrown up stopping American
beef imports into Australia. But Donald Trump is digging in.
(01:51):
He is refusing to soften his approach. He actually says
his approach is starting to work, with some fifty odd
countries reaching out hoping to have a meeting with him soon.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
David, all right, thanks for the update there.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Rob Scott in Los Angeles, well, a granny flat was
the scene of a vicious stabbing in Sydney's West last night.
A forty seven year old man with stab wounds was
found in the Penrith home earlier today. He was taken
to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition. A twenty nine
year old woman was arrested nearby in the same suburb.
She's under police guard at Nepean Hospital. Officers investigating think
(02:24):
the pair are known to each other.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's day twelve of the federal election race, with both
Anthony Albanesi and Peter Dutton set to go head to
head in Sydney. Let's go live to Josh Martin and
Cambra this morning and Josh, they're set for their first
live media debate at the race.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Morning David and many people are saying this is make
or break. At seven thirty tonight the News Corpse People's
Forum will get under way. The PM needs to continue
his momentum. He's had a good first week on the campaign.
The polls are behind him. He had a good News
Corp News poll yesterday and he's made a number of
announcements on Medicare. Peter Dutton needs to claw back ground
(03:01):
after a horror first week. Many are saying it's been
his worst week as Opposition leader, and it's come at
the worst time during the campaign. There's only two weeks
until pre poll and postal voting begin and less than
four weeks until the election day proper Today, the Prime
Minister will announce a one billion dollar mental health package
in Sydney this morning to upgrade or open one hundred
(03:25):
mental health centers around the nation. Peter Dutton will also
be in Sydney hitting key seats. He's yet to visit
Benelong reading Gilmour in New South Wales, which will be
key to him winning the keys to the Lodge, and
he'll be looking to put the policies he dumped yesterday
behind him.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Of course he's scrapped.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He's moved to make public servants go back to the
office and he's scrapped his public service cut. So David
a key debate tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yep, silly will be thanks for that, Josh Well.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Police are trying to find one more man after a
security guard impersonation sagare at the Melbourne Grand Prix. It's
alleged three men snuck into Albert Park without proper security accreditation,
wearing high viz jackets and landing themselves in areas restricted
to the public. Two eighteen year olds have now been
arrested and charged, with officers still looking for one more. Well,
(04:15):
thousands of New South Wales doctors working in the public
hospital system will this morning walk off the job for
seventy two hours over pay and working conditions.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Five thousand doctors.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Are expected to take part in a three day historic
walkout fighting for a thirty percent pay rise. A dozen
Sydney hospitals will be hit, the worst affected Westmead, Saint George,
Prince of Wales and RPA. The Doctors' Union says staffing
levels will be the same as on a public holiday
and patients won't be in any danger and Sydney Ferries
will also be out of action from eleven am to
(04:47):
one pm due to an industrial matter as well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Shocking footage of teen bandits breaking their way into the
control room of Sydney train has surfaced online. They're seen
trying to tamper with the trolls and later hanging off
the train as it travels over the Harbour Bridge. The
video was posted on social media As police now investigate well, guns, tasers,
knuckle dusters and drugs have been seized at one address
(05:14):
on the Gold Coast, Task Force Maxima clamping down on
a home in Bigger Waters where they found twenty weapons, steroids,
illegal drugs plus fifteen thousand dollars in cash. A fifty
two year old man was arrested and charged with twenty
eight offences and his jud to face court in May.
While sin kild As Jack Higgins isn't backing down after
(05:36):
his anti Adelaide tirade, the Saints are setting up in
the City of Churches ahead of this week's gather around.
Higgins has earned the wrath of the city after saying
he'll probably be staying inside playing video games with his
mates instead of seeing the sites. Adelaide Crow's star Darcy
Foggity blasted Higgins's faux pass, saying he is more than
(05:56):
welcome to make a quick exit. Mainia's top chief is
reportedly launching a bid to still gather.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Around from Adelaide.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Grant O'Brien, who's also the Appellles Tourism chairman, has confirmed
he's having informal discussions with league bosses. He's reportedly gunning
for a takeover in twenty twenty twenty eight to coincide
with the Devil's first season well. The cost of designing
the new five dollar note has been revealed this morning,
new figures placing the process at five hundred and seven
(06:28):
thousand dollars in total.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The Reserve Bank confirmed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Staff travel to Alice, Springs Broom, Bathurst, Hobart and Shepperdon
to meet with First Nations communities and the design is
still in that development stage. I'll check in Tuesday's whether
now and Brisbane partly cloudy twenty eight degrees, Sydney shower
two and twenty three, Canberra partly cloudy twenty two degrees,
Melbourne cloudy and nineteen degrees, Hobart cloudy in eighteen, Adelaide
(06:55):
becoming sonny in twenty three, Perth cloud clearing and twenty
seven degrees, and Darwin a shower or two and thirty
three degrees
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