Australia should be ‘realistic’ about Trump’s America First agenda, Wong says
Asked if Donald Trump’s second term would include more disruption than the first, Penny Wong again declined to wade into commentary.
But she said “President Trump has made it very clear he’s going to do things differently”.
He’s made it clear is going to implement an America First agenda, and we should be realistic about that. We should also be confident in who we are, in our values, our place in the world, and our ability to deliver on our national interests, and that’s what we will be focused on in these coming weeks and months.
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But she said “President Trump has made it very clear he’s going to do things differently”.
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He’s made it clear is going to implement an America First agenda, and we should be realistic about that. We should also be confident in who we are, in our values, our place in the world, and our ability to deliver on our national interests, and that’s what we will be focused on in these coming weeks and months.
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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has commented on the damage and antisemitic graffiti caused to a childcare centre in Sydney’s east overnight.
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I utterly condemn this evil hate crime. My government will support NSW police to hunt down the offenders and ensure they face the full force of the law through Operation Avalite.
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It comes a day after Peter Dutton and the Coalition promised tougher penalties and mandatory minimum jail sentences for antisemitic attacks.
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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says it was a “privilege and honour” to be the first Australian foreign minister to “be invited and to attend an inauguration on behalf of our country”.
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She spoke with the Today show from Washington DC, where she attended Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Wong said Trump made it clear during his speech he was “going to do things differently”. She said she would meet tomorrow with the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the national security adviser “in the near future”.
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On the long list of executive orders Trump will sign in the coming hours, and how worried she is about the prospect of tariffs on Australia, Wong said:
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My message here in Washington to those I meet is to point out the reality of the economic relationship between Australia and the United States, that there is a surplus in America’s favour. There has been for decades. In fact, it’s about two to one. And of those exports from Australia that come here, about half of them go into the US production.
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NSW police have confirmed a childcare centre in Sydney’s south-east was targeted with antisemitic graffiti and set alight overnight.
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Just before 1am emergency services were called to the centre in Maroubra where firefighters extinguished the blaze, but the building was “significantly damaged”, police said.
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The building was unoccupied at the time and there were no reports of injuries. Offensive graffiti has been located on an external wall.
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Officers have established a crime scene and an investigation was commenced. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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Emily Wind here, signing on for blogging duties. I’ll be taking you through our live coverage for most of today.
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As always, feel free to reach out with any story tips, feedback or questions via email: [email protected]. Let’s go.
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The government has announced $262m in another round of funding for local defence industry, to develop Australia’s Aukus submarine supply chain capacity.
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Labor says the funding will support about 125 businesses across the country, to build industry capacity, and help get domestic products into US and UK supply chains.
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The Aukus agreement, signed in August last year, officially came into force over the weekend, which will see US Virginia-class submarines transferred to Australia from the 2030s.
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The defence minister, Richard Marles, said in a statement:
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We are continuing to build and invest in an Australian submarine industrial base capable of supporting our future nuclear-powered submarine fleet and underpinning a strong local economy over the coming decades … This is a further demonstration that Aukus is happening now.
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I had a very constructive discussion with the incoming president when I wished him well on his election. I made the point to President Trump that the United States has enjoyed a trade surplus with Australia since the Truman presidency.
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It’s been there for a long time, and the United States is, of course, a major investor here in Australia, and the relationship between our two economies is so important. So I’m very confident that we will work these issues through, because they’re in the interests of both Australia and the United States.
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Laura Tingle:
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But no explicit assurance at this stage, by the sounds of things?
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Well, to be fair, he hasn’t been through the inauguration yet, but very clearly it was a positive discussion that we had. He said that we will have a perfect relationship, and I expect that the relationship between Australia and the United States will remain strong.
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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Emily Wind with the main action.
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Rupert Murdoch was among the parade of tech billionaires and influential business figures in Washington DC to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump. The media tycoon was spotted at a church service on the morning of the event – as well as the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Fifa’s Gianni Infantino – and in the select audience at the inauguration itself.
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Hours before Trump was sworn in, Anthony Albanese told 7.30 that he had not received any explicit assurance from his camp that Australia would not suffer any adverse tariff actions. But Albanese said he was “confident” the two countries can work through economic issues. More coming up.
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Australians are feeling more optimistic in 2025 about the fortunes of the economy and their families, our latest Essential poll shows, delivering Albanese a welcome boost. The prime minister’s approval was strongest among young voters, with 54% of those aged 18-34 giving the prime minister a positive rating, compared to only 36% of those over 55.
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How is NSW government planning to strengthen hate speech laws?
Asked how the NSW government was planning to strengthen hate speech laws, as it had previously flagged, Chris Minns outlined as follows:
In NSW, if someone vilifies an individual, then it has to be a private prosecution. It’s against the law, but the police don’t take care of that prosecution.
In Western Australia, and soon to be in Victoria, these are criminal offences. And as a result of that, the individual has to put their own name on it. They might have to expose themselves and say, Ben, I think you’re responsible for vilification in our community. Eventually, that vilification could lead to violence, and I’m going to take a stand.
I don’t think we should be expecting members of our community to take up that responsibility. I think that’s the state’s role, and that’s part of the legislation.
Minns says graffiti, fire at childcare centre ‘sophisticated attack’
Earlier, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, spoke with 2GB about the antisemitic targeting of a childcare centre in Maroubra overnight.
He said it was “not just malicious damage or random graffiti” but a “sophisticated attack”.
We are very alarmed and concerned about it. Police are putting resources into it as we speak. They will track down these people …
I don’t think that this begins and ends with somebody launching an attack in a street in Sydney. I think it begins with language. And I think that the incendiary language that’s heard in different parts of Sydney can eventually lead, maybe a month or two months down the line, to someone committing a violent attack on someone.
Albanese congratulates Trump on inauguration
Earlier this morning, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, congratulated Donald Trump on his inauguration, writing on X:
Congratulations [Donald Trump] on your inauguration as 47th President of the United States. The United States is a great friend of Australia’s. Our Alliance has never been stronger. I look forward to working with you on the opportunities and challenges ahead.
The foreign minister, Penny Wong, also shared a photo from Washington DC, alongside Quad foreign ministers at the inauguration. She wrote:
The United States is Australia’s closest ally. I look forward to working together with the new Administration to deliver on our shared interests.
Today I joined Quad Foreign Ministers to represent Australia at President Trump’s inauguration.
The United States is Australia’s closest ally. I look forward to working together with the new Administration to deliver on our shared interests. pic.twitter.com/rjeQbze2MB
— Senator Penny Wong (@SenatorWong) January 20, 2025
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Today I joined Quad Foreign Ministers to represent Australia at President Trump’s inauguration.
The United States is Australia’s closest ally. I look forward to working together with the new Administration to deliver on our shared interests. pic.twitter.com/rjeQbze2MB
— Senator Penny Wong (@SenatorWong) January 20, 2025
US energy policy could impact prices across the world, Sinodinos says
Arthur Sinodinos said his message to Australians following Trump’s inauguration was that there would be “risks and there will be opportunities”.
He said “certain sectors will benefit … more than others” from Trump cutting regulation, and that Australia could do more with the US when it comes to critical minerals.
They’re obviously going to compete with us on energy. Trump is wanting to produce even more oil and gas, and as part of his anti-inflationary policy, reduce energy prices in the US and export a lot of energy abroad, which will have a broad impact on energy prices across the world.
Trump visit to Australia should include broader Indo-Pacific, Sinodinos says
On the prospect of Donald Trump visiting Australia, Arthur Sinodinos said this should be part of a broader trip across the Indo-Pacific:
He didn’t attend many of the summits in the Indo-Pacific in his last time in office. This time, we’ve got to encourage him to do that, because the best way to get him to Australia is as part of a trip where he also does a sweep through other important countries in the region.
I think the important thing is not whether he comes here on the state visit or not. He fought for years whether he engages in the region, and he seemed to engage, and in that way, is giving his presidential imprimatur to a set of coordinated policies that we have in the Indo-Pacific, or have had to date.
Former ambassador says US needs to remember ‘they need us’
Another former Australian ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, spoke with ABC RN after Trump’s inauguration this morning.
He pointed to a number of meetings the foreign minister, Penny Wong, will hold in the coming days in the US and said “the message to the Americans has to be they need us”.
We need to remind the Americans of how much Australia brings to the table when it comes to defence, not just in terms of levels of spending, but where that money is spent. It’s about Aukus. It’s about forced posture initiatives in the north of Australia. It’s about Pine Gap. It’s about North West Cape. All the other stuff we do which is integral to American security – they have to be reminded, I think the extent to which their security is based on what other countries do and help.
Social changes in US will have flow-on effect to Australia, Hockey says
Joe Hockey said he was “not so worried” about the impact on Australia of tariffs as he is on “the impact on Australia of change in America”.
America is the biggest economy in the world. When they cut company taxes, if Australia doesn’t follow, we become massively uncompetitive. If they cut personal income tax, it’s going to have an impact in Australia. If they get rid of regulation – and God, there’s so much red tape here – then it’s very hard to do business in Australia rather than in America.
So I think what you’re going to see is that the second round impact of decisions that Trump makes in America are going to have the big impact on Australia, and they’re going to force policy change in Australia.
In particular, Hockey said social change in America would impact Australia – pointing to the comments Trump made about gender and the Paris climate agreement.
He’s already said he’s going to tear up the Paris climate agreement, so you can see business already moving in a different direction here in the United States. And I mean, the social changes here are going to have an impact in Australia as well. So, you know, I think … that’s where the impact will be most keenly felt.
Trump ‘has no handbrake’ and is ‘going to be off the leash’ – Hockey
The former Australian ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, also spoke with the Today show from Washington DC earlier this morning, after Trump’s inauguration.
Asked for his thoughts, Hockey said it was “expected” and that Donald Trump “has no handbrake” because “he’s not worried about re-election.”
He’s not worried about what the media says. He’s not worried about the courts. He’s not worried about whether he has a financial future after he finishes as president, he’s going to be off the leash and it’s all going to unfold pretty quickly.
Hockey said that usually an incoming president would give a speech and then “disappear for 24 to 48 hours, gets on with it”.
Whereas Donald Trump not only goes on to give another speech, he’s actually going to an arena and giving another speech again. So he’s very much unfiltered.
‘We know there is a lot of work’: Wong on the reconstruction of Gaza
Finally, asked if Australia would provide support for the reconstruction of Gaza, Penny Wong pointed to humanitarian assistance Australia had already committed.
And we certainly will look at what the international community seeks in terms of further support for stability in the region. We know there is a lot of work.
Australia should be ‘realistic’ about Trump’s America First agenda, Wong says
Asked if Donald Trump’s second term would include more disruption than the first, Penny Wong again declined to wade into commentary.
But she said “President Trump has made it very clear he’s going to do things differently”.
He’s made it clear is going to implement an America First agenda, and we should be realistic about that. We should also be confident in who we are, in our values, our place in the world, and our ability to deliver on our national interests, and that’s what we will be focused on in these coming weeks and months.
Wong declines to comment on domestic US policy amid visit to Washington
Let’s circle back to Penny Wong, who also spoke with ABC RN as part of her breakfast program rounds this morning.
The foreign minister was asked about some comments Donald Trump made during his inauguration – that the official policy of the US government would be there are only two genders, male and female.
Asked for the Australian government’s position on this, Wong said she wouldn’t wade into US domestic matters as foreign minister:
I think the prime minister was asked this in the campaign. I’ll refer you to his answer, but I don’t intend – particularly while I’m here in Washington – to comment on President Trump’s domestic policy announcement …
I have a job to do here in Washington, and that is to advocate for Australia’s interests, our security interests and our economic interests. And that’s what I’ve been doing.
Minns and NSW police to address media later this morning
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is expected to address reporters on the antisemitic graffiti and fire at a childcare centre in Sydney later this morning.
NSW police said they would also speak about the arrest and charging of a woman yesterday over a separate incident, as investigations continue into the alleged malicious damage of vehicles and buildings at Woollahra last month.
NSW multiculturalism minister condemns ‘unconscionable’ targeting of childcare centre
The NSW minister for multiculturalism, Steve Kamper, has described the antisemitic graffiti on a childcare centre in Maroubra overnight as “unconscionable” and “heartbreaking”.
He said the centre is located less than 200m from a synagogue, saying in a statement:
This despicable act has no place in our society. Antisemitism must be unequivocally condemned.
The cowardly thugs who perpetrated these acts deserve to be met with the full force of the law, they are a blight on our multicultural society.
We will be meeting with the NSW Faith Affairs Council prior to the next parliament sitting to review stronger legislation.
Albanese condemns alleged ‘evil hate crime’ in Maroubra overnight
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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has commented on the damage and antisemitic graffiti caused to a childcare centre in Sydney’s east overnight.
I utterly condemn this evil hate crime. My government will support NSW police to hunt down the offenders and ensure they face the full force of the law through Operation Avalite.
It comes a day after Peter Dutton and the Coalition promised tougher penalties and mandatory minimum jail sentences for antisemitic attacks.
Wong says Albanese would have opportunity at appropriate time to meet Trump
The foreign minister, Penny Wong, has been making the rounds on breakfast TV after Donald Trump’s inauguration early this morning, also appearing on ABC News Breakfast.
Asked if Anthony Albanese would meet with Trump before the federal election, or if Trump may visit Australia during his second term, Wong said:
This is all interesting discussion, but the president has only just been inaugurated … In terms of future meetings, I’m sure that the prime minister will have the opportunity at the appropriate time to meet the president.
Wong confident on Aukus and Kevin Rudd’s future
On the Aukus deal, Penny Wong said commentary from the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, during his confirmation hearings were “very positive”.
He talked about this being an example of how you can make sure alliances and partnerships expand our collective strength in support of peace and deterrence.
She also defended Kevin Rudd’s role as ambassador to the US, following comments he had made in the past about Donald Trump, and said Rudd was “central to the invitation” for the Australian government.
He’s been central to the opportunity I have to meet with the national security adviser and the secretary of state, and he’s been central to the bipartisan support for Aukus that we have seen. Kevin has been doing an excellent job, and he’s certainly developed very strong relationships across the aisle with both Republicans and Democrats to the benefit of our country.
When will Australia get clarity on tariffs?
Penny Wong said the new US administration had just been sworn in and “I’m sure they will work through their agenda”.
Other governments, and certainly the Australian government, will continue to engage, to put our view and to work through any announcements that are made in relevant areas in the days to come.
US-China relationship a matter for them, Wong says
Asked how Australia can “tread carefully” when it comes to the US-China relationship, Penny Wong said those two nations’ relationship was a matter for them.
The foreign minister said her focus was on “making this relationship between China and Australia more stable”.
We’re pleased that the trade impediments have been removed, and that’s obviously been of benefit to Australian jobs. I’ve also been clear, as has the prime minister, that there are things on which we are simply going to disagree on and those things are not going to change.
