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Australia, one of the world's biggest fossil fuel exporters, has strongly criticised the European Union's proposal to enact a carbon border tax.
The measure was confirmed yesterday in the EU's sweeping new climate plan.
Such a tax would make exporters to the EU pay more for goods like steel and cement, to level the playing field for European firms paying carbon permits.
But Australia has argued that such a tariff would be "protectionist" and could breach trade rules.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan said Australia would be "looking very closely" at how it would be imposed, with a view to any potential rule breaches.
"The last thing the world now needs is extra protectionist policies being put in place," Mr Tehan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday.
Just 4% of Australia's exports directly go to Europe, but such a tax, if passed, will likely create flow-on costs for Australia's resource sales to China and other major Asian markets.
Mined commodities such as iron ore, coal, gas and oil account for more than two thirds of Australia's export wealth.
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Hopkins announced on Instagram on Saturday that she had arrived in Sydney and further claimed that she had been intentionally breaking the country’s strict quarantine rules by opening her quarantine hotel room door while naked without a face mask when hotel employees bring her food to “frighten the s*** out of them.”
Travelers in quarantine are required to wait 30 seconds before opening the door to retrieve food and other items, and must also wear a face mask.
Though Hopkins repeatedly laughed while telling the story on Instagram, many Australians were not amused and questioned why she had been given a visa to enter the country and a place in quarantine.
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In case you're uninformed like me, and did not know who is Katie Hopkins:...
Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975)[1][2] is an English media personality, columnist, far-right[3] political commentator, and former businesswoman. She was a contestant on the third series of The Apprentice in 2007, and following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers. Hopkins wrote for The Sun in 2013 and the Daily Mail's website MailOnline from 2015 to 2017. In 2015, she hosted her own television talk show If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World, and appeared on the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up. The following year, Hopkins became a presenter for the talk radio station LBC and underwent major brain surgery to relieve the severity of her epilepsy.[4] In 2021, she joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP).[5][6]
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