12 Feb 2025

Australia: Trump plumping, ancestral repatriation, pets on planes

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 12 February 2025
A Virgin Australia plane takes off at Sydney Airport in Sydney on March 19, 2020. -

"Please stow your pet under the seat in front of you." Virgin Australia is trialing pets on planes. Photo: AFP

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton says PM Anthony Albanese had been trying to persuade US President Donald Trump to exempt Australia from the planned 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports - but the country got singled out for criticism anyway.

The National Museum has held a ceremony to transfer the remains of two Moriori people back to New Zealand as part of a worldwide repatriation effort.

Virgin Australia is trialing pets on planes and Australia's best beach has been named - in a rather surprising location. Karen Middleton is Political Editor of the Guardian Australia

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