This Month
Revolving door of PMs embarrassed Australia: Albanese
Anthony Albanese has acknowledged Labor’s contribution to the chaos that blighted Australian politics for almost two decades.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
It’s not just Labor that let the CFMEU off the leash
Jacqui Lambie, Pauline Hanson and some independents have played a role in enabling the militant union.
- Phillip Coorey
Tennis diplomacy: Trump’s close ally accepts Rudd’s ‘olive branch’ invitation
The future Trump cabinet pick and former presidential candidate says the psychology of the bad boy of Australian tennis “fascinates me”.
- Matthew Cranston
ASX hits record; Burke moves on CFMEU; Accolade to buy Pernod
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Like Vance, Rudd has changed his views on Trump
The Australian ambassador to the US says he has been busy building bridges with Donald Trump’s team and the Republicans’ MAGA movement.
- Matthew Cranston
What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?
Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
June
Rudd schmoozes Biden’s mooted replacements
Joe Biden’s poor debate performance has sparked discussion about who could replace him, and take on Donald Trump in November.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
The secret breakthroughs that freed Assange
Legal proceedings against the notorious whistleblower ended after a long and delicate fight in the highest offices on three continents.
- Andrew Tillett
LME failure on nickel due to its own self-interests: Rudd
The Australian ambassador says prices kept artificially low by China were creating a risk of a 20 per cent slump in global supply of the commodity.
- Matthew Cranston
Bill Shorten’s speechwriter earning $620,000
A former scriptwriter for soap operas Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice now earns more than a senator as “specialist speechwriter”.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
May
- Opinion
- Pacific diplomacy
Penny Wong must speak up on New Caledonia
It’s time for Australia’s foreign minister to act as the honest friend and tell France that they are mishandling their Pacific territory.
- Hamish McDonald
ScoMo brings Rudd closer to Trump
At Washington DC in front of Republican dignitaries, Scott Morrison finally spoke to a room familiar with his cadence.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
AUKUS is ok with Trump, says Morrison
Donald Trump has indicated solid support for the AUKUS submarine deal, according to former prime minister Scott Morrison, who met with the former president at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday AEST.
- Matthew Cranston
April
Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic
The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Albanese makes manufacturing his future
Labor wants to promote a future made in Australia. He knows it will have political appeal. What about the economics?
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Big four
We should be glad banks are speaking up
Australia’s big banks are at the coalface of the economy. Governments should be listening when they highlight the need for change.
- Nick Hossack
March
- Opinion
- Satire
Kevin and the Donald rewrite the diplomatic dictionary
A pedant’s guide to what the former US president really meant in his comments on the Australian ambassador.
- Rowan Dean
Borrowers squeezed: RBA; UK tax hits Aussies; Apple’s core problem
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Rudd’s backroom strategy for Trump
In behind the scenes meetings, the former prime minister is working on an unlikely plan to make himself indispensable to the former president if he wins again.
- Matthew Cranston
Albanese, Wong back Rudd after Trump attack
The Albanese government says Kevin Rudd will remain Australia’s ambassador to the United States next year, even if Donald Trump returns to power in the November presidential election.
- Phillip Coorey and Matthew Cranston