This Month
The Melburnian and MAGA favourite behind the ‘Doping Olympics’
Aron D’Souza, the Melburnian founder of the controversial Enhanced Games, is backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump jnr, and has big plans for the future.
February
Worley expects profit boost from Trump energy policies
The engineering group’s shares jumped 11 per cent after it announced a $500 million share buyback and said it would benefit from a resurgence in fossil fuel projects.
January
The sweet irony of OpenAI’s DeepSeek beef
OpenAI thinks DeepSeek took its private data to train its models; the hearts of writers, artists, musicians and journalists around the world must bleed for it.
Rude discovery: Trump confronts limits to his power in the complex US
Supreme power appealed to Donald Trump’s supporters, but the reality is America’s complex and at times cumbersome democracy just won’t allow for it.
Amazon buys Melania’s life story for $64m in Bezos’ latest overture to Trump
The tech giant won a bidding war for the “unprecedented behind-the-scenes look” at the former and future first lady’s life.
Meet the Aussie who helped give Trump ideas about Greenland
Perth-based Greg Barnes briefed the White House on his own mineral holding in the Danish territory during the president-elect’s first mandate.
Donald Trump jnr goes window-shopping for his dad in Greenland
The gambit comes at a tricky time for Copenhagen, as leaders on the mineral-rich island push harder for full independence from Denmark.
December 2024
Trump co-opts Jill Biden to spruik his ‘fight, fight, fight’ perfume
From footwear to digital trading cards, everything around the president-elect has become monetised. The latest is “a fragrance your enemies can’t resist”.
November 2024
Albanese weighed down abroad by parlous state of world
It hasn’t hurt for the prime minister to witness first hand the changing global forces, more so as countries preposition for Trump’s second coming.
Trump’s market impact is a side-show for Australian investors
The president-elect’s upcoming second term may carry more significance for markets than his first, says Tribeca’s Jun Bei Liu.
Donald Trump taps loyalists for top national security and Mid-East posts
The president-elect this week picked a number of loyalists with hardline views who will shape US foreign policy decisions in his new administration.
Trump and Harris secretly agree on at least one major issue
There has been one issue where substance rather than partisanship has moulded thinking.
October 2024
End secrecy in scam overhaul
Readers’ letters on scam reforms, economic policies in the US election, Queensland Labor’s school lunch policy, politicians taking on the supermarkets, Scott Morrison’s new space job and architecture at Atlassian.
July 2024
Trump details shooting; makes ‘bold’ pledges
Trump details attempted assassination before returning to usual rhetoric in 90 minute speech; Pelosi tells Democrats Biden may soon be persuaded to exit race; Biden’s donations expected to halve. Follow updates here.
How Thiel and Silicon Valley funded J.D. Vance’s sudden rise
Donald Trump’s VP pick was a venture capitalist bankrolled in business and politics by billionaire investors. His ties to PayPal’s co-founder go way back.
May 2024
New US tariffs on China could help Australian critical minerals
It’s not just the federal budget that could boost Australia’s critical minerals exports, but also a new round of US tariffs on Chinese imports.
Biden ramps up tariff regime on $27b of China imports
Following a four-year review on trade with China, US President Joe Biden will not only keep the tariffs put in place by Donald Trump, but ratchet up others.
Judge in Lehrmann case slams Ten lawyer’s ‘misleading’ interviews
Justice Michael Lee criticises Ten’s lawyer as he determines how much Bruce Lehrmann should pay in costs; Albanese pledges almost $1 billion for domestic violence victims. Here’s how the day unfolded.
April 2024
The uneasy truce between Donald Trump and Fox News
Every media outlet in the world is grappling with how to cover Donald Trump, as his pronouncements become more stuffed with false claims. But the dilemma is most vexing for Fox News.
March 2024
Trump catches a break in multimillion-dollar fraud case
A New York appeals court has reduced the size of the bond Donald Trump must post in his civil fraud case by more than half.