Andrew Thorpe

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Georgie Hewson |Andrew Thorpe |Stephanie Chalmers |Clint Jasper

While Australia's imports from the United States are worth more than what we export to it, there are still many sectors that would feel the pain of tariffs. We export a lot of meat to the US, so the beef industry is on alert. Other industries that have the US as a key customer include gold, pearls and other precious stones, and optical and medical goods. Australia exported $US1.35 billion worth of pharmaceuticals to the US last year, mostly blood products and vaccines.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Andrew Thorpe

Salmon farming in a Tasmanian harbour has been protected from legal challenges, after controversial changes to federal environmental laws passed the senate unamended overnight. The Macquarie Harbour industry has become an election issue, with both Labor and the Coalition promising to secure its future (and shore up votes in the key seat of Braddon) in the face of challenges to environmental approvals.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Andrew Thorpe

Fears of a nuclear incident in Ukraine rose to the surface on Friday when a drone armed with a warhead blasted through the protective outer shell of the melted-down reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. The strike, which Kyiv blamed on Russia, did not breach the concrete "sarcophagus" containing the reactor itself and radiation levels did not increase, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Dec 27, 2024 | abc.net.au | Andrew Thorpe

South Korean politics is in turmoil, with the impeachment of the acting president, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, on Friday coming less than two weeks after the opposition-controlled parliament impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. The successive impeachments are unprecedented, and mean the top two officials in Asia's fourth-largest economy are currently suspended from their duties. The deputy prime minister and finance minister, Choi Sang-mok, is now South Korea's new interim leader.

Jul 2, 2024 | abc.net.au | Andrew Thorpe |Caitlin Rawling

Charlotte, a stingray who took the internet by storm earlier this year when she reportedly became pregnant without the presence of a male, has died, according to the aquarium in which she lived. The female round stingray, who was native to the southern California coast, was expected to give birth to up to four pups in late February of this year, according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO aquarium in North Carolina.