Australian prime minister says he mentioned tariffs and AUKUS safety partnership in name with US president.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stated he had a “heat” dialog with United States President Donald Trump about commerce and different points after his Labor Occasion’s decisive election win over the weekend.
Talking to the media in Canberra on Monday, Albanese stated the 2 leaders mentioned tariffs and the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership in a congratulatory telephone name made by the US president.
“It was a really heat dialogue concerning the friendship between our two nations that’s so vital,” Albanese stated.
“I’ve had three conversations with the president. I gained’t go into all the non-public feedback that he made, however it was very beneficiant in his private heat and reward towards myself. He was absolutely conscious of the result, and he expressed the will to proceed to work with me sooner or later.”
Albanese made the feedback after securing a thumping win in Saturday’s federal election, which was dominated by cost-of-living considerations and the spectre of Trump’s commerce struggle.
Albanese’s centre-left Labor far outperformed expectations after operating behind the Liberal Occasion-Nationwide Occasion Coalition, led by former police officer Peter Dutton, for a lot of the 12 months, taking no less than 85 seats within the 151-member Home of Representatives.
Dutton, whom critics accused of channelling Trump’s populist fashion, and his Coalition suffered an electoral wipeout, with partial outcomes exhibiting it forward in simply 40 seats.
Australia, one of many closest US allies, has been slapped with a ten % tariff as a part of Trump’s so-called “reciprocal” duties on dozens of commerce companions.
Whereas Trump has paused most of his double-digit tariffs till July, his administration has been accumulating a baseline tariff of 10 % on nearly all imports since early April.
Albanese on the time slammed Trump’s tariff as “unwarranted”, saying the transfer was “not the act of a pal”.
