20
submitted 8 hours ago by Cypher@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

The United States is planning to impose a 12.5 per cent tariff on goods from Australia, alleging the country has failed to take action to prevent slavery and forced labour.

Anthony Albanese says any tariff on Australian exports to the US is "unjustified and inconsistent" with the free trade agreements between the two allies.

Former Australian ambassador to the US Joe Hockey says Donald Trump is convinced that tariffs are beneficial to the US.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The only reason it's an 'anti-slavery' tariff is because the supreme court shot down his completely arbitrary tariffs (probably because it's destroying their economy, they're on board with all the rest of his fuckery). He's trying an end run around them.

Gobsmackingly hypocritical given their prison system. Fuck 'em.

this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
20 points (95.5% liked)

Australia

5015 readers
166 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS