Chris Spirou

Morning, Sash.

Angus Taylor has laid out his budget reply overnight, making a clear play to win back voters who have or are thinking about defecting to One Nation.

In a speech to the lower house, the opposition leader laid out his plans to take away welfare access for anyone who isn't a citizen, address bracket creep and make the biggest cut to immigration ever seen in this country.

He also vowed to deport 70,000 so-called visa overstayers and make it harder to get a temporary protection visa.

Chris.

Like the Treasurer the night before, he rushed to sit down with the ABC immediately after the speech and he was forced to defend the move to target non-citizens.

Yeah.

Well, you'd hope so, yeah.

But, you know, based on their track record, there's every good chance that they don't.

To China now, where Donald Trump and his band of business leaders and tech billionaires have been treated to a state banquet in Beijing, hosted by Xi Jinping, who declared the US-China relationship was the most important in the world.

The Chinese president last night also saying his country's rejuvenation and make America great again can go hand in hand, while Trump and the likes of Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook tucked into roast duck, pork buns and beef ribs.

and got treated to a rendition of YMCA by the People's Liberation Army Band.

interview with Fox, Trump said that Xi has offered to help reopen the Strait and pledged to no longer send weapons to Tehran, though that has not been officially confirmed on China's end, and it probably won't be.

And that's something that we did deep dive not too long ago.

We popped a link in the show notes yesterday.

I'll pop it in the show notes today as well.

China does like to walk the fine line between keeping Iran as a very close trading partner.

We know that China buys a

And it does supply Iran with weapons, although it publicly won't come out to say that.

And it also won't publicly be celebrating that it has been trying to break a peace between the two countries that very much, like I said, walks that fine line.