A journalist just asked what appeared to be Coaliiton talking points “you appear to be asleep at the wheel” in a question about Trump’s tariffs.

Why is the fall back position always that we should go begging to the United States? Do these people have any national pride at all? These tariffs are insane, they are tanking the world economy and the answer is apparently that we go and give the mad man what he wants in the hopes that he might not go nuclear insane?

Honestly.

Albanese:

We had direct contact with the United States administration and we’ll continue to do so. We’re in caretaker mode at the moment but we’ll continue to engage as we are through our officials. Jim Chalmers travelled directly to the United States, met with the US treasury secretary, there have been documentations going between our two countries as I have said before.