{"id":109015,"date":"2025-08-01T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109015\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:35:11","slug":"australia-dodges-tariff-increase-as-trump-keeps-rate-at-10-per-cent-asio-boss-says-espionage-costing-australians-billions-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109015\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia dodges tariff increase as Trump keeps rate at 10 per cent; ASIO boss says espionage costing Australians billions every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has defended his secretive dinner with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash Patel in Sydney this week, saying it was a \u201creally good\u201d meeting that was warm and canvassed \u201cwide-ranging\u201d topics.<\/p>\n<p>Patel briefly visited Australia in a personal capacity, after a public visit to New Zealand to open the FBI\u2019s permanent office in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f7bbfd20ec98e68e3c8b01cf18811f88504cfae3.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>The meeting wasn\u2019t publicly shared by Australian or American officials, and was only revealed following a question from the ABC on Thursday. Burke said there were \u201csecurity reasons\u201d informing the secrecy of the meeting, which was also attended by Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting was really good &#8230; it was a great discussion of different ways in which we keep people safe \u2026 co-operation is very real, very strong,\u201d Burke told ABC Radio National.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was wide-ranging, warm and reflecting the \u2026 strength of co-operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel is a controversial figure who once called the Americans jailed for their role in the January 6 Capitol riots \u201cpolitical prisoners\u201d, prompting Greens senator David Shoebridge to call on Burke to offer further detail on the dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FBI Director Kash Patel.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2239e0be5d78afdbcaf8741ab19faecdb1b1d570.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>Burke defended the meeting, saying there would \u201cnever be a day\u201d when he declines the opportunity to further the national interest and Australian safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I have the choice, my obligation as home affairs minister is to keep Australia safe, and that\u2019s exactly what our relationship with the US does,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has defended his secretive dinner with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-109015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114950945171004930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}