Your afternoon Briefing

Ciobo warns US tariffs will cost jobs, a Port Arthur victim says push to relax gun laws is a “betrayal” and a Christian group is out to reclaim mardi gras.

Good afternoon, readers. Steven Ciobo warns the United States’ sweeping tariffs will cost Australians jobs, a man who lost his wife and daughters in the Port Arthur massacre says Tasmania’s push to relax guns laws is a “total betrayal” and a religious group is out to reclaim the Christian origins of mardi gras.

Australian Trade Minister Steve Ciobo speaks during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, February 14, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Jobs warning over Trump tariffs

Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has warned sweeping United States’ tariffs on steel and aluminium imports will cost Australian jobs and potentially set off retaliatory trade bans that could push the global economy into recession.

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#### WARNING - EMBARGO- DO NOT PUBLISH BEFORE FRIDAY JAN 26 2018 ####Walter Mikac is an Australian pharmacist who became widely known in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, where his wife Nanette Mikac (nŽe Moulton) and daughters, six-year-old Alannah Mikac and three-year-old Madeline Mikac were among 35 people killed by Martin Bryant on 28 April 1996. Mr Mikac will be awarded the prestigious OAM - Medal of the Order of Australia on Australia Day. Picture: Elise Derwin

‘Betrayed by Libs’ on gun laws

Walter Mikac, who lost his wife and daughters in the Port Arthur massacre, is “flabbergasted’’ by Tasmania’s push to relax guns laws.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 18: David Warner and Cameron Bancroft of Australia celebrate in the changerooms after Australia regained the Ashes during day five of the Third Test match during the 2017/18 Ashes Series between Australia and England at WACA on December 18, 2017 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Openers struggles continue

David Warner has given Cameron Bancroft this advice to break out of his batting slump. Follow all the action of the Australia v South Africa second Test in our live blog.

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01/03/2018 Australian Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash walks behind a whiteboard as she arrives at Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 1, 2018.

No one can hear anyone scream

In politics, nothing good has come from a whiteboard or ever will, writes Jack the Insider.

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Sydney Easter Parade 'Mardis Gras'

Christians reclaim mardi gras

A rival to Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras will aim to emphasise its Christian origins, with a dancing army of 10,000.