Hello readers, and welcome to today’s election edition of Afternoon Update. The seventh day of the campaign has been dominated by Donald Trump’s “liberation day”, with the US administration announcing 10% tariffs to be imposed on Australia. Anthony Albanese declared it was “not the act of a friend” but said nobody globally had gotten a “better deal” than Australia. That’s excluding Australia’s tiny external territory of Norfolk Island, which was, in the words of the PM, “rather bizarrely” slammed with a 29% tariff. Peter Dutton strongly supported the five measures announced by the government in response to the tariffs, including
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