Australia news LIVE: Trump rules out Australian exemption for steel and aluminium tariffs; Ukraine ready to accept ceasefire deal

With less than eight hours until Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs are set to take effect, the Coalition is during the prime minister get on the phone with the US president for a last-ditch attempt to secure an exemption.

After White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there would be no exemptions, Housing Minister Clare O’Neil insisted there were still discussions underway, but she wouldn’t detail what negotiations might take place.

“I will leave it to the PM to speak about the ways in which he is going to engage with this subject over the last 24 hours,” she said on Seven’s Sunrise.

After criticising the government for not doing enough to secure the exemption, Liberal senator Jane Hume said she is “urging the time minister to pick up the phone”.

“This is the last chance. I am not saying this with my Coalition hat on, I’m not talking about things that have gone wrong, but for the sake of your children, my children, the prosperity of the nation in the future, this is the time to pick up the phone and do something. The prime minister has failed to do that.”

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese previously secured Trump’s consideration on a tariff exemption in a phone call.