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Japanese company wins $10 billion deal to build new Australian warships
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Australian consumers unlikely to see US beef on supermarket shelves as giants support local farmers
Australia's major supermarkets and fast food chains have no plans to stock beef from Canada or Mexico and slaughtered in the US, despite the Albanese Government lifting a long-standing import ban last month. The Federal Government last month controversially ended a 22-year-old ban on beef from Canadian and Mexican cattle slaughtered in the United States, declaring the move followed a decade-long scientific review and posed no risk to food safety. But leading retailers — including Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and McDonald's — have confirmed they will continue sourcing 100 per cent of their beef from Australian producers, with no intention of selling imported meat. A Woolworths spokesperson said the supermarket sourced about seven per cent of the nation's total beef production and remained committed to its local-first approach. 'We apply an Australian-first approach, and 100 per cent of our fresh red meat is sourced directly from Australian farmers, with whom we have long-standing relationships,' he said. 'We have no plans to change that approach.' A Coles spokeswoman echoed Woolworths commitment to provide local beef, and said there would be no changes to its meat supply or products made available to customers. 'At Coles, we continue to partner with top beef producers across Australia to bring our customers the high-quality, 100 per cent Australian-sourced Coles brand fresh beef that they enjoy today,' she said. An Aldi spokeswoman also confirmed the chain has no plans to change its position in sourcing meat from Australian farmers. American fast-food giant McDonald's has also thrown its support behind local beef producers — choosing to shun US beef for its burgers. Federal Agriculture Minister Julie Collins announced the removal of the ban in July on the basis of a 'rigorous' and decade-long review based on science, and declared any food coming into Australia was 'safe'. The Nationals leader David Littleproud called for an independent review of the Federal Government's decision to lift the beef ban, and said he was concerned biosecurity standards were being 'sacrificed' for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. But the call for an independent inquiry into the import decision was knocked back in the Senate last week. Myalup beef producer and WAFarmers livestock president Geoff Pearson also questioned lifting of the beef ban and said he would like to see the detail behind the Federal Government's move. 'The biggest concern is that they preach the fact that the science has been done and there's no biosecurity risk to industry,' he said. Mr Pearson said he was not concerned with the importation of US beef affecting the price of local beef, with Australia exporting more beef into the US than there is US product coming into Australia. 'The effect for the bottom line of Australian producers is fairly limited,' he said. The ban lift came just before Australia was hit with a 10 per cent tariff on exports to the US — the lowest tier under a tariff schedule introduced during Donald Trump's presidency.
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Read the vile antisemitic comments of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas after he praised Anthony Albanese in overnight phone call
The Palestinian leader who praised Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a phone call on Tuesday has previously compared Israel to the Nazis and claimed the Holocaust was "not about antisemitsm". The Prime Minister's office on Tuesday revealed Mr Albanese spoke with Palestinian Authority President and leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Mahmoud Abbas on the ongoing situation in Gaza. In the conversation, Mr Albanese 'reiterated Australia's call for the immediate entry of aid' in Gaza as well as a 'permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages', according to a readout of the phone call. 'Prime Minister Albanese also reinforced Australia's commitment to a two-state solution because a just and lasting peace depends upon it,' the readout said. 'President Abbas thanked Prime Minister Albanese for Australia's economic and humanitarian support. 'The leaders discussed deepening cooperation across a range of areas, and agreed to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.' But the same Palestinian leader who thanked Australia for its support has a grim past of shocking antisemitic rhetoric. In a speech to members of his Fatah party in August 2023, Mr Abbas denied the Holocaust was "not about antisemitism", and instead said Hitler's horrific killing of six million Jews was because of 'their social role", which had to do with "usury, money and so on'. In the same speech, he denied that European Jews had any lineage based in the Middle East, a widely discredited theory. 'When we hear them talk about Semitism and antisemitism — the Ashkenazi Jews, at least, are not Semites,' Mr Abbas said. In a speech to the UN in May 2023, Mr Abbas compared Israel to the Nazis and said the country lied like Joseph Goebbels. 'Israeli and Zionist claims continue by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. As if Palestine was a desert and they made the desert bloom,' Mr Abbas said at the UN event honouring the Palestinian Nakba. 'These are lies,' he said. 'They continue to lie, like Goebbels, and they continue to lie until people believe their lies and they continue therefore their false claims by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. Palestine was never a desert.' During a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in 2022, Mr Abbas also accused Israel of committing '50 holocausts' against Palestine since 1947. 'If we want to dig further into the past, yes, please, I have 50 massacres that were committed by Israel,' Mr Abbas said. 'Fifty massacres, 50 Holocausts, and to this day, every day, we have dead people killed by the (Israeli Defence Forces), by the Israeli army.' While Mr Albanese secured a phone call with Mr Abbas, he is still seeking the same with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Assistant Foreign and Trade Minister Matt Thistlethwaite told Sky News on Monday the PM was seeking to urgently make contact with Mr Netanyahu to convey the Australian government's position on the ongoing conflict in Gaza. 'A phone call is being pursued,' Mr Thistlethwaite told Sky News on Monday. It came after Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell revealed Mr Albanese was chasing a phone call with Mr Netanyahu. Mr Abbas has led both the Palestinian Authority and PLO since 2004. He abolished the parliament in 2007 and has led without a popular mandate ever since. His authority has also dwindled after a split with Hamas in 2007 in which the terrorist group took control of Gaza.
