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Cattle farmers have reacted angrily to US tariffs on Australian beef.

Trump’s beef attack rejected by top Australian biosecurity experts

American farmers are calling for their beef exports to be welcomed into Australia, but their imports are the problem.

  • Mike Foley and James Massola

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, left, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listen as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lutnick calls Australian biosecurity rules ‘nonsense’, says Trump won’t back off

As global markets roiled from the US president’s tariff overhaul, his commerce secretary said the time for negotiation was over and other countries had to “change their ways”.

  • Michael Koziol
Cattle farmer Fiona Conroy at her farm  in St Leonards.

Cattle farmers would rather cop Trump’s tariffs than diseases from American beef

Farmers have reacted defiantly as the US president singled out Australia’s beef in his trade crackdown as Albanese and Dutton say they would never compromise biosecurity.

  • Mike Foley, Angus Delaney and Jessica McSweeney

A beetle is killing some of Perth’s grandest trees. The eastern states could be next

In the WA capital, century-old Moreton Bay figs are among the trees falling victim to an alarming pest – and the city is taking extreme measures to counter it.

  • Victoria Laurie
Only three numbers matter to Donald Trump: the average US tariff rate on other countries is 3 per cent; Europe’s is 5 per cent; and China’s is 10 per cent.

Farmers warned to brace for 10 per cent tariffs as Trump targets $7b industry

President Donald Trump is expected to impose tariffs on $7 billion worth of Australian farm produce which enters the United States each year.

  • David Crowe, Mike Foley, Michael Koziol and Shane Wright
Fire ants rafting in Queensland floodwaters following Cyclone Alfred.

The venomous fire ants Cyclone Alfred is sending our way

The invasive pest has already colonised the United States – now recent flooding is raising fears it will do the same in Australia.

  • Mike Foley
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The egg shortage is partly the result of bird flu outbreaks.

‘Crazy jump in price’: Shoppers, farmers brace for years-long egg shortage

Bird flu outbreaks have choked the nation’s supply of eggs – and frustrated egg farmers say the proposed ban on caged eggs is exacerbating the problem.

  • Jessica Yun
A new strain of bird flu has been detected in Victoria.

Everything you need to know about the new Victorian bird flu outbreak

A new strain of avian flu has been found in chickens at a farm in Victoria’s north. Here’s what you need to know about the highly infectious H7N8 strain.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
2024’s outbreak forced two million chickens to be killed.

‘Poultry have been infected’: Bird flu confirmed at Victorian chicken farm

CSIRO testing confirmed the presence of the highly pathogenic H7N8 strain of avian influenza at a farm near Euroa.

  • Angus Delaney
Eucalyptus trees are a fire risk around the world.

The Australian species spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides Antarctica.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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