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Bruce McWilliam buys the worst house in Bondi Beach

Former Channel Seven commercial director Bruce McWilliam has added a dilapidated ex hoarder’s house to his blue-chip property portfolio.

Square Peg’s Paul Bassatt, OneVentures’ Michelle Deaker, Airtree’s Craig Blair,  Andrea Gardiner of Jelix Ventures, and Blackbird’s Rick Baker are among the investors who responded to the AFR survey.

14 venture capitalists unpack the year ahead

More than a dozen of the country’s biggest tech investors say floats will return, there’s no AI bubble, and Donald Trump may be good news for local firms.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Trump’s tariffs hit markets and politics

It is now clear to world leaders and Wall Street that the president’s version of transactional politics includes the blunt reality of universal levies rather than just the threat of them as a negotiating tactic.

Malcolm Turnbull’s war of words with Donald Trump won’t help.

We shouldn’t hit back on tariffs – it would just hurt us more

Despite the $1 billion hit, it would be self-defeating to retaliate in kind against Donald Trump’s refusal to exclude Australia from his 25 per cent global levy.

The real issue is Turnbull’s claim that Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are engaged in “bipartisan gaslighting”.

Speaking truth to Trump not as easy as Turnbull says

Australia’s leaders simply cannot ignore the possible implications for the US alliance when crafting their public rhetoric about the serving commander-in-chief.

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US President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One as he returns to Washington from Florida.

How world leaders are managing Trump

Malcolm Turnbull warns against forming a “conga line of sycophants”, but there is no universal view on the best way to handle relations with the US president.

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ASX dives; Behind Wall Street’s violent slump; Why Vic is so angry

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

US President Donald Trump and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Trump lashes Turnbull on eve of tariff call

As Australia pushes for an exemption from US metals tariffs, Malcolm Turnbull has angered Donald Trump with a stinging take-down of his presidential style.

February

Trump and Norman have had a close bond for many years.

Don’t worry, Trump knows what AUKUS is, Greg Norman says

The Australian golf legend says he’s prepared to help if he can to broker relations with his mate Donald Trump, as a deadline looms on tariffs and the president appears oblivious to the big-money submarine pact.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is in Washington trying to negotiate a tariff exemption

Rudd, Chalmers, Farrell lock in US talks in race for tariff carve-out

The Albanese government is mounting a full court press in Washington to spare Australian exports from tariffs before the election is called.

Meet the men behind ‘the worst policy decision of the 21st century’

The GST deal, criticised as the worst public policy decision since Federation, is again under scrutiny as Premier Roger Cook promises hundreds of millions in handouts ahead of the state election.

Former US Senator for West Virginia Joe Manchin with former Australian treasurer Joe Hockey. Mr Manchin will join Mr Hockey’s Bondi Partners as a senior adviser.

This US senator stole Joe Hockey’s boots. Now they’ve joined forces

Joe Manchin says Australia will always be a valued ally even if it does not feel that way in the frenzied early days of Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One.

PM to go head-to-head with Trump on tariff threat

Australian exports to the US could be hit by taxes after the American president announced a duty on metals coming in from every other nation.

Richard Marles and Pete Hegseth.

Marles off to D.C. to bolster relations as US launches trade war

Richard Marles will visit the US this week and meet his new counterpart, Pete Hegseth, as Australia seeks to build relations with the Trump administration.

January

Get moving on charging EV drivers for road use, politicians urged

Having helped kill a Victorian scheme in the High Court, the Commonwealth must step in with a solution for dwindling road-user revenue, says the nation’s peak motoring group.

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Darktrace co-founder Mike Lynch died last August after his yacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily.

UK’s Darktrace buys Turnbull-backed cyber firm for up to $161m

The cybersecurity giant, which counted deceased British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch as a founding investor, is set to acquire Cado Security in which Turnbull has an interest.

Howard backs free trade and fossil fuels in Trump era

Trade experts doubt a 20-year free trade agreement between Australia and the US will influence Donald Trump’s decision on tariffs.

December 2024

Malcolm Turnbull and Semperis’ Mickey Bresman see an opportunity in reducing companies’ need to pay ransoms to cyber attackers.

Malcolm Turnbull goes from PM to investment cyberhawk

The former OzEmail chairman is working with a company trying to reduce the need for businesses to pay cyber-ransoms, the latest in his growing tech portfolio.

A social media photo showing Anthony Albanese playing tennis in Perth.

Anyone for tennis? Albanese needs to avoid the January jinx

A wander through some recent prime ministerial summers shows us that the season is stuffed with political danger.

Wentworth independent Allegra Spender represents the Liberal party’s ancestral homeland.

Liberals hold Christmas party in Allegra Spender’s seat

The Liberals were at the last election defeated in their ancestral homelands. But they’re still there, fundraising and planning a resurgence. 

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