Andrew Thorpe

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

Good morning from the Dutton campaign!We're starting off the day travelling through the streets of Sydney. Destination: unknown. The opposition leader this morning is offering tax incentives to help give new small businesses a boost. He's set a target, too — to have 350,000 new small businesses open in the first four years of a Dutton government. Under the proposed "entrepreneurship accelerator" scheme, businesses would only have to pay tax on a portion of their income.

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

The opposition leader is asked about the recent cyber attack on a number of superanuation funds, which saw hackers use stolen passwords to access thousands of accounts to steal members' funds. The question is whether the government should impose tighter cuber security regulations on super funds. Dutton says he thinks the onus is already on the super funds to do the right things by their members.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

Feb 15, 2025 | 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.