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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he’s secured a 30 day reprieve from a threatened 25 per cent tariff on goods sent to the US.

In a post on X, Mr Trudeau revealed he had a “good call” with US President Donald Trump in which he agreed to new commitments.

“Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.”

NSW Premier Chris Minns is under mounting pressure to sack his transport minister aftef new revelations contu eto urface about her use of government supplied vehicle for personal use.

Mr Minns is standing by Jo Haylen who claimed she was going to work when she used a taxpayer-funded driver to drop her children off at weekend sporting events.

The premier defended his transport minister after a series of car-related scandals including a boozy winery lunch trip.

“Based on the information I have at the moment, I expect that the rules must be changed, and more importantly, the behaviour must change,” he told Sydney radio 2GB on Tuesday.

“If there’s other information and it comes to light and it’s presented to me ... I have to take that into consideration, and it would weigh very heavily on me.”

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers will stand up shortly and is expected to talk about the billions of dollars he says the Coalition’s “long lunches” policy will cost.

Treasury estimates the policy – yet to be costed by the Opposition – has a price tag of between $1.6 billion and $10 billion a year, according to figures released overnight.

The lower estimate assumes businesses only claim deductions of $2500 a year, while the upper end reflects if they all claimed the full $20,000 allowed under the proposal.

“This shows the Liberals’ taxpayer-funded long lunches policy would smash the budget,” Chalmers said releasing the figures.

“We now know this policy costs billions of dollars but we still don’t know what Peter Dutton would cut to pay for it.”

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A teenage girl who was killed by a shark at a popular beach on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane, was there with her best friend who has been left traumatised after the horrifying attack occurred about 4.45pm on Monday.

Locals told 7NEWS they thought 17-year-old Charlize Zmudawas caught in a rip as she was “wading out” in the water, and had been heading down to help her before screaming rang out across Woorim Beach, near the Fourth Ave access point.

Paramedics called to the scene found Zmudafighting for life with catastrophic upper body injuries, and rushed into the water to help her.

The 17-year-old girl died about 15 minutes after the attack.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Tuesday have launched the parliamentary year side by side at an ecumenical service at St Christopher’s Cathedral in Canberra as both pray for a miracle in this year’s Federal election.

Ahead of a week of fractious debate over a hate crimes bill and a politically charged election campaign that has already seen a daily dose of sharp jibes, Mr Albanese will seek to shift the tone with a Bible reading from the New Testament’s First Letter to Peter, that urges people to “keep their tongue from evil.”

“Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult,” the reading says.

“On the contrary, repay evil with blessing,” it continues, urging believers to “turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it…who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?”

For his own reading, Peter Dutton struck an optimistic tone with a passage about Lazarus rising from the dead. Does he foresee a political resurrection?

Will politicians follow the message of kindness when they leave the church doors and head to the parliament? We’ll find out in a few hours time.

The Kremlin says it is too early to discuss a potential four-way peace talks format proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and has restated its concerns about his electoral mandate.

Zelenskiy told the Associated Press news agency in an interview published on Saturday that he favoured four-way talks between the United States, Ukraine, Russia and the European Union and said it would be “very dangerous” for the US and Russia to hold talks about ending the war in his country that did not involve Ukraine.

His comments followed remarks by US President Donald Trump suggesting the US and Russia had already been in touch about Ukraine.

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A night of celebration ended in Sam Kerr crawling out of the broken back window of a taxi, then being arrested for racially aggravated abuse of a London police officer, causing “harassment, alarm or distress,” a UK court has been told.

Jurors watched footage of the Australian women’s football captain telling officers she and partner Kristie Mewis feared they were being kidnapped after the driver refused to let them out of his cab following a row over compensation for vomit in the back of his vehicle.

Kerr was recorded twice calling police constable Stephen Lovell “f***ing stupid and white,” and insisting on going to court rather than pay for the window, leading to her being arrested.

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US President Donald Trump says he will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after they agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard members to stem the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the agreement also includes a US commitment to act to prevent trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.

The two leaders spoke by phone on Monday, just hours before US tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada were set to take effect.

Mexico and the US will use the month-long pause to engage in further negotiations, Trump said.

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Donald Trump has halted tariffs on Mexico temporarily after the Mexican president agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border and Aussie football superstar Sam Kerr has told of her hears she had been kidnapped.

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