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Mad Tax...

US President Donald Trump drives a car with the licence plate 'tariff' through an Australian landscape. Text reads, 'He tariffed the world – now he's after our movie industry. Donald Trump's Mad Tax.'

In light of the tariffs that threatened to hurt Australia’s movie industry, Warren Brown refers to one of the unprecedented success stories of Australian cinema, the Mad Max series of post-apocalyptic action films. Here Trump is driving Max’s V8 Interceptor Ford Pursuit Special. The first film in the series held the record of the world’s most profitable film for more than 20 years, a feat that wouldn’t be possible today with Trump’s proposed 100 per cent tariff.