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Don Farrell says Trump’s 10% tariffs ‘unjustified’

The trade minister, Don Farrell, is speaking to RN Breakfast about Donald Trump’s 10% tariffs on Australian goods.

We don’t think it was justified in the first place.

My argument to my counterpart tomorrow will be that we want these tariffs removed. Firstly, because it’s in Australia’s interest to have them removed, because it simply pushes up the price of our product in the United States, but it also pushes up the cost of living for ordinary Americans.

I think, as time goes by, it will be increasingly clear to the American government that the actions they’ve taken has taken them down the wrong track.

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Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings

Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state’s department of motor vehicles notifying them that their driver’s licenses will be invalid beginning Thursday, as a new law goes into effect that demands that forms of identification must now reflect the credential holder’s “sex at birth”.

The bill, known as SB 244, also bans transgender people from using bathrooms in public buildings that match their gender identity, and creates a sort of bounty hunter system, in which citizens can sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for $1,000 in damages.

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Afgelopen dinsdag ontbood Nederland de Iraanse ambassadeur nadat een Nederlandse diplomaat eind-januari op het vliegveld van Teheran werd gedwongen zijn bagage af te geven.

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Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS and Linux, bringing a new AI Settings section that lets users disable all of the browser's AI-powered features in one click and then selectively re-enable the ones they actually want, such as the local translation tool that works locally rather than in the cloud.

The update also patches more than 50 security vulnerabilities -- none known to be under active exploitation -- over half of which Mozilla classifies as high risk, including five sandbox escape flaws and eight use-after-free bugs in the JavaScript engine that could allow code execution.

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Opnieuw een overval op een tankstation van Esso aan de Adriaan Volkerlaan in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde. Twee gemaskerde mannen, gewapend met messen, stormen op donderdag 18 december rond 20:00 uur binnen met de tekst: ‘dit is een overval’.

De schaamte bij de slachtoffers van deze babbeltruc is groot. Dit Rotterdamse echtpaar snapt niet dat ze erin zijn getrapt. Het is een schrale troost, maar volgens de politie slagen oplichters door hun geraffineerde werkwijze er wekelijks in vele slachtoffers te maken.