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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally.

Trump claims election is being stolen again

The former president is priming his supporters to claim another election steal if he doesn’t win big.

  • Jennifer Hewett

August

Scarcity Partners’ Managing director Adrian Whittingham has set sights on a private credit manager backed by Macquarie and Al Gore’s investment fund.

Ex-Pinnacle executives line up Dinimus in private credit push

Scarcity Partners is closing in on yet another minority investment in an asset manager, in what would be the firm’s second deal since starting in March 2023.

  • Aaron Weinman

June

Clive Palmer and Tucker Carlson in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Clive Palmer’s private jet picks up Tucker Carlson

The mining billionaire’s plane picked up a pain from Maine.

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  • Myriam Robin

November 2023

Joe Bide at this week’s traditional Turkey-pardoning ceremony in Washington. The Democrats have had years to cultivate a successor.

Biden can’t spin his way to re-election

To prevent a second term of Donald Trump, Democrats must accept that what is going wrong is their basic proposition, not the framing or messaging of it.

  • Janan Ganesh

August 2023

His apparent refusal to accept the legitimacy of the last presidential election result was shameful. But whatever Trump wanted, he failed

America’s starting to look a lot like South America

It will take the wisdom of Solomon to steer the US back on to the path of stability and normality.

  • Alexander Downer
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July 2023

Canada is bracing for higher-than-normal wildfire activity to continue into August, as soaring temperatures and drought turn much of the country’s vast forests into kindling.

The climate crisis requires a wartime footing

Only by invoking the spirit of joint endeavour against a common enemy can we make the radical changes we need to get to net zero.

  • Camilla Cavendish

January 2023

Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer and occupant of its tallest tower, plans to cut 10 per cent of its workforce.

A tech giant paid big salaries – now it’s paying the price

The pro-employee culture of Salesforce is under threat from activist investors and an economic downturn.

  • Aaron Patrick

September 2022

Mark Carney, co-chair of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero,

Pension fund Cbus quits Mark Carney’s green alliance

The Australian fund and an Austrian pension fund have quit the alliance, as climate activist Al Gore warns on greenwashing risks.

  • Alastair Marsh

January 2022

After the runaway success of Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich was urged to produce another such hit. Instead, he turned his hand to another disaster: the coming climate emergency.

The filmmakers grappling with humanity’s greatest threat

Once considered a fringe subject, climate change has proved a rich seam for filmmakers to mine as they wrestle with how, exactly, to depict looming disaster.

  • Sonia Rao

November 2021

A sizeable gap has opened up between the cost of hydrogen in gas-importing countries and those with plentiful supplies such as the US Gulf Coast.

Hydrogen price transparency will help fuel a green revolution

Hydrogen has a crucial role in tackling the hard-to-decarbonise sectors. Price signals should help in targeting limited supplies and incentivise hydrogen production in low-cost countries.

  • The Lex Column

October 2021

Al Gore: When large asset managers offload assets [because of climate concerns], it underscores the need for mandatory disclosure in private equity so that those same assets don’t continue to operate under new owners in the shadows.”

Al Gore urges overhaul of global finance to cut greenhouse gases

Banks and asset managers must stop lending or providing capital to companies that are engaged in ‘destructive practices’, according to the former US vice-president.

  • Harriet Agnew, Attracta Mooney and Patrick Jenkins

March 2021

There is a growing appetite from investors for renewable projects.

NAB trains ‘carbon bankers’ to ease the net zero path

The initiative comes as demand for green finance and other initiatives to ease the transition to net zero emissions is increasing rapidly from a low base.

  • Ben Potter
Andrew Forrest’s privately owned Squadron Energy is willing to build a power station at Port Kembla.

Forrest’s global green dream runs into domestic politics

Andrew Forrest is focused on developing new green industries and green energy. Can he straddle the contradictions of Australia’s domestic energy politics?

  • Jennifer Hewett

November 2020

The willingness of Donald Trump to accept defeat is clearly in question.

Democracy can fail anywhere, even in America

When efforts at democracy promotion fail in Egypt or Iraq it is a tragedy for the country concerned. If democracy fails in the US, it will be a global tragedy.

  • Gideon Rachman

October 2020

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in West Salem, Wisconsin.

Market nightmare of a stolen US election

Anything less than a Democrat clean sweep will leave Donald Trump trying to claim victory. Then markets should worry.

  • Nouriel Roubini
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Fighting back. Supporters of President Donald Trump watch a video during a campaign event in Michigan.

Narrowing battleground race stokes fear of disputed election

It's happening again. Donald Trump has captured that most sought-after commodity in the dying days of any election: momentum.

  • Jacob Greber

September 2020

Harold Evans and Tina Brown pictured in 2000, after she received aher CBE from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

Trailblazing journalist Harold Evans dead at 92

A former editor of Britain's Sunday Times and, at his death, Reuters editor-at-large, Evans put a unique stamp on investigative journalism. He died of congestive heart failure in New York, according to his wife Tina Brown.

  • Bill Trott

August 2020

Trump supporters rally against a law signed by Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak to mail ballots to all of the state's active voters ahead of the November election.

Trump encourages mail voting in Florida, but sues in Nevada

Democratic requests to vote by mail have surged in Florida, a state that Mr Trump almost certainly must win to secure a second term.

  • Kevin Freking

July 2020

If Donald Trump finds ways to amplify allegations that some teachers, journalists, business leaders and students have been fired or ostracised because of their beliefs, or even minor mis-steps, he could shift public opinion his way.

It is too soon to write off Trump’s election chances

This year’s general election campaign will unfold in an environment unlike any other in recent US history. Despite Joe Biden’s lead in the polls, it’s clear that there is still time for this to become a real race.

  • Dan Senor

February 2020

The Keating government considered then rejected a carbon tax in 1995, because it would undermine its “no regrets” policy,

The great climate crack-up

The global warming debate is polarised because the left hugs trees and the right hugs coal. A compromise sounds simple: an energy policy that cuts emissions at the cheapest cost to the economy.

  • Matthew Warren

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