17 Apr 2025

'Tariffed penguins' launch export business

From Checkpoint, 4:26 pm on 17 April 2025

A waddle of penguins are resorting to rockonomics in the face of Trump's tarrifs. The remote sub antarctic Heard Island is Australian territory and as a result have been slapped with a ten percent US trade tax. A huddle of mainland Aussies have seized on the marketing gold. They've launched a new Penguin backed export business selling pebbles; symbolic of the fact they live on a rocky outcrop, all proceeds to the colonies of Heard Island. Milla Novak spoke to Lisa Owen.