The Prime Minister has once again put health front and centre of Labor’s re-election campaign, promising to co-fund the $300 million dollar Flinders Health Precinct in Adelaide's South. The Coalition says it will match the pledge. The prospect of more Trump administration tariffs has also emerged. A new trade report out of the US lays out a list of grievances the White House has with Australia.
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00:00Anthony Albanese is making his first campaign stop in South Australia, offering $150 million
00:07to help build a new facility at the Flinders Health Centre.
00:10Adelaide has two key seats for Labor.
00:13One it already holds in Boothby, and another in Sturt that's on a fairly slim margin but
00:17held by the Liberals.
00:18Labor's trying to keep health at the focus of its campaign in these early days.
00:23Anthony Albanese was joined by the South Australian Premier, Peter Malinowskis, meeting patients
00:27and staff at the Flinders Medical Centre.
00:30But while Labor wants to keep talking health, a trade stoush is looming over the campaign.
00:34Donald Trump's administration has listed new concerns with Australia's trade rules, including
00:39biosecurity rules preventing imports of American beef.
00:42The PM says that's not an area he's willing to negotiate on.
00:46I've seen this report and the report has three things that are of concern, at least, to Australia.
00:55One is the News Bargaining Code, the second is pharmaceuticals, and the third is biosecurity.
01:02Those issues are not up for negotiation from the Australian Government.
01:07We will defend Australia's interests.
01:09The idea that we would weaken biosecurity laws is really that, as my mum would say,
01:15cutting off your nose to spite your face.
01:17You know, you do, in order to defend the exports that total less than 5% of Australia's exports,
01:27you undermine our biosecurity system?
01:30Not on my watch.
01:31The Reserve Bank is also due to meet this afternoon, with fairly low expectations of
01:35a rate cut.
01:36Peter Dutton has promised changes to lending rules to try and help first home buyers crack
01:40the market.
01:41The PM says he's not quite sure what's being proposed, but pointed to Labor's changes to
01:46HECS and lending rules.
01:47Well, it's pretty hard to work out exactly what it is that they're promising.
01:52Loosening issues, one of the things that we have done is to ensure that the banks won't
01:57take into account people's HECS debt, which is really important.
02:01Labor's campaign is set to roll on across the country in the next few days, but it could
02:05perhaps be overtaken by events abroad in the coming days.
02:09The Trump administration is set to make its call on tariffs for Australia and plenty of
02:13other countries across the globe in just the next 48 hours.
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