Fired-up Peter Dutton claims Australia could have avoided tariff blow if Anthony Albanese had 'done the work' in brutal sledge on live TV

Peter Dutton claims Australia could person secured a tariff woody with the US if Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had 'done the work'.

Donald Trump delivered his 'Liberation Day' address announcing caller planetary tariffs with Australia being slapped with 10 per cent connected each exports to the US.

The Opposition Leader agreed Mr Albanese's five-step program to escaped Australia of the 10 per cent tariff was achievable during an quality connected Sunrise connected Friday. 

But helium slammed the PM for failing to instrumentality enactment earlier successful the year.  

'The engagement needs to beryllium with the US but it should person been taking spot truly from January,' Mr Dutton told the Channel Seven hosts. 

'The occupation is that the Prime Minister hasn't been capable to get adjacent a telephone call, fto unsocial a gathering with the president. 

'The ambassador can't get into the West Wing. It shows that had we done the enactment beforehand, I deliberation determination was a woody to beryllium struck.'

Mr Dutton said he's assured helium could unafraid Australia an exemption from tariffs if helium wins the national election.

'When we were successful authorities past time, erstwhile President Trump was successful the Oval Office, we were capable to negociate an exemption for Australia,' helium said. 

'It was astatine zero per cent, different countries had the tariff applied, we didn't and that's due to the fact that we enactment enactment into the narration and we've got connections with those wrong a presumption of influence.

'I deliberation determination is simply a woody to beryllium done there... and I bash deliberation that the 10 per cent is conscionable leverage. It's a negotiating maneuver and I deliberation we tin get a bully outcome.'

But Minister for Education Jason Clare slammed Mr Dutton's claims, saying it was 'ridiculous' the Opposition Leader believed helium would person got a antithetic result. 

He said Mr Dutton would 'take a knee' to the United States. 

'[Peter Dutton] beats his thorax and pretends that he's tough,' Mr Clare said. 

'Really, what he's talking astir present is trying to, you know, bash a woody with the United States. Peter Dutton much apt would constitute a publication called The Art of the Kneel.

'We're not going to crook the genu to the United States. We're going to basal up for Australia each azygous time.'

Mr Clare said Australia had already offered what Mr Dutton had projected and the US rejected the deal.  

He added the result would not person been antithetic adjacent if Mr Albanese flew to the US and spoke personally with Trump.  

'Japan did that, the UK did that, they can't get a amended deal,' Clare said. 

'Donald Trump enactment tariffs connected an land wherever determination are nary quality beings, determination are conscionable penguins. So it is conscionable ridiculous for Peter Dutton to beryllium saying this could person happened but that's conscionable emblematic of Peter Dutton.'

It comes aft Mr Albanese confirmed Australia would not reciprocate contempt slamming Trump's tariff arsenic 'totally unwarranted'. 

'For Australia, these tariffs are not unexpected, but fto maine beryllium wide - they are wholly unwarranted,' the PM said connected Thursday.

'President Trump referred to reciprocal tariffs. A reciprocal tariff would beryllium zero, not 10 per cent. The administration's tariffs person nary ground successful logic and they spell against the bases of our 2 nation's partnership.

'This is not the enactment of a friend.'