{"id":25389,"date":"2025-07-27T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25389\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T06:40:09","slug":"trade-minister-don-farrell-retracts-claim-about-trump-and-albaneses-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25389\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade minister Don Farrell retracts claim about Trump and Albanese\u2019s talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albanese insisted that \u201cthis wasn\u2019t a political decision\u201d, saying it was \u201cabsolutely\u201d a coincidence that the Department of Agriculture decided to lift the restrictions after loud complaints from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an independent review, it took 10 years,\u201d Albanese said, rejecting the opposition\u2019s calls for an investigation into the move. \u201cThe decision has been made, and it was made independently at arm\u2019s length of any political decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trade Minister Don Farrell said he was wrong to say US President Donald Trump raised the issue of beef imports in his conversations with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b6a63f90b4f89708aa1d4f73ab847cf90e7072e5.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trade Minister Don Farrell said he was wrong to say US President Donald Trump raised the issue of beef imports in his conversations with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n<p>Cash said: \u201cIt is even more imperative now that we need to ensure that the Australian Labor Party under Mr Albanese have not traded away our strict biosecurity standards, which all Australians understand need to be in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mhh5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia has allowed US beef into the country<\/a> since 2019, but blocked meat from cattle that were born in Mexico and Canada before being slaughtered in America. This effectively meant that all beef from the continent was blocked, because US supply chains are highly integrated. No US beef has been imported since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albanese insisted that \u201cthis wasn\u2019t a political decision\u201d, saying it was \u201cabsolutely\u201d a coincidence that the Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-25389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}