That’s a wrap – thank you for reading the Need to Know blog today. These were some of the main stories:

• Former ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose engaged in a testy exchange with the barrister of Antionette Lattouf, who is suing the national broadcaster for alleged unfair dismissal related to social media posts about Gaza. Buttrose insisted she did not authorise Lattouf’s removal, after being led through a series of emails with senior managers including one in which Buttrose suggested Lattouf could feign illness.
• Qld floods hit national banana prices, economic output: Australians across the country will see steeper grocery prices, as the impact of the north Queensland floods spreads beyond drenched tropical communities.

• Trump contradicts aide as he signs tariff executive order: When White House staff secretary Will Scharf handed Donald Trump the executive order to impose a 25 per cent tariff on aluminium, he told the US president that “a large number of exceptions have been added into the law … It increases the tariff rate from 10 to 25 per cent”.

• Trump plans to bring back plastic straws with new executive order: Donald Trump has signed an executive order that reverses a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work”.

• PM reports ‘great conversation’ with Trump: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he had a “great conversation” with Donald Trump after his pre-scheduled phone call.

• Bank, Australia Post deal a win for regional residents: Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor is “standing up for regional Australia” by shoring up banking services for people in the bush through a deal with Australia Post.

• Trump’s tariff plan attacked in Congress as ‘insult to Australians’: President Donald Trump’s plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports has been branded an “insult” to the Australian people and America’s key security partner in the Indo-Pacific.