{"id":892567,"date":"2026-09-15T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892567\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:28:09","slug":"national-news-live-coalition-accuses-labor-of-rorting-grant-scheme-pm-speaks-with-king-charles-uk-unity-threatened-by-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892567\/","title":{"rendered":"National news LIVE: Coalition accuses Labor of rorting grant scheme; PM speaks with King Charles; UK unity threatened by pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resources Minister Madeleine King says it would be challenging to manufacture cars on Australian soil again, after former prime minister Kevin Rudd floated the idea in a Nation Press Club address.<\/p>\n<p>A car manufactured in Australia would need to be \u201ca highly specialised type of vehicle for an extraordinarily niche market,\u201d King said on Afternoon Briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get back into car manufacturing, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re making sure we preserve a lot of the capacities we have now, like in steel making and the smelting capacity as well in copper, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do make certain vehicles, the Bushmasters and Bendigo, an iconic defence-based vehicle, which is really important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSetting up an EV production line is going to be a challenge,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do need sovereign capacity. We can\u2019t do everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resources Minister Madeleine King says it would be challenging to manufacture cars on Australian soil again, after former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-892567","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\/892567","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=892567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}