{"id":713724,"date":"2026-06-04T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:19:10","slug":"australia-news-live-pocock-calls-for-senate-to-split-tax-bill-israel-lebanon-agree-to-implement-ceasefire-us-says-boosting-hopes-for-iran-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713724\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Pocock calls for Senate to split tax bill; Israel, Lebanon agree to implement ceasefire, US says, boosting hopes for Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former treasurer and ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey has lamented the Trump administration\u2019s decision to continue seeking a tariff agenda, saying he has personally argued with the US leader over the topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president of the United States is absolutely convinced that tariffs are great. I\u2019ve argued personally with him on the issue, and he\u2019s just not moving,\u201d Hockey told ABC radio this morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just can\u2019t see the inflationary impact and the negative impact on American consumers, and it just goes to show how the world\u2019s on its head when a left-wing Labor prime minister is trying to convince a right-wing Republican president that free trade is actually the right way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JoeJoe Hockey at the National Press Club of Australia last month. Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening Trump announced a 12.5 per cent tariff on Australia and 53 other nations on the basis that countries had not acted to prevent slavery and introduce import prohibitions on products produced through forced labour.<\/p>\n

Hockey said Trump misunderstood the way tariff\u2019s work, saying: \u201cAmerica is running out of money, and they need to get it from somewhere, and the president of the United States is convinced that foreigners pay tariffs imposed by America, whereas in fact it is American consumers that pay higher prices\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t understand where the world is heading here in the United States and elsewhere, where people think it\u2019s a great idea to increase taxes on consumers and think that it\u2019s going to improve the economy and create more jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former treasurer and ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey has lamented the Trump administration\u2019s decision to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-713724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713724","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=713724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}