This Month
Steady hand faces test from Trump’s new American revolution
Anthony Albanese is promising a reformist, orderly government with no surprises but what will happen when the shocks keep coming?
What Australia’s election winner should learn from Keir Starmer
The British government admits the “UK has been regulating for risk, but not regulating for growth”. Could Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers ever utter such words for Australia?
What went wrong – and right – in this election
A sullen electorate appears to be reluctantly accepting more of the same from Labor. For the Coalition, it adds up to a discordant failure of tactics, strategy, policy, preparation and imagination.
April
Mark Carney won, but there will be no honeymoon
The newly elected PM told Canadians he was the right person to stand up to Donald Trump and boost the country’s lacklustre economy. Now he has to do it.
Carney shows dignity matters most in combating Trump
Famously commonsensical Canada reminds us that some things – patriotism, dignity – can be valued higher than short-term economic growth.
Inflation steady; $100b fund’s Trump plan; Ex-model running for One Nation
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Carney’s Liberals only narrowly miss out on majority
With final results coming in from nearly all districts, the Liberals secured 169 seats in the 343-member parliament, just three shy of a majority.
Mark Carney’s anti-Trump victory fuels Labor hopes
Anthony Albanese has promised to build ties with Canada, as Malcolm Turnbull said Canberra and Ottawa should work more closely together against Donald Trump.
Crisis-fighting central banker to lead Canada through US trade war
Mark Carney ran a low-key five-week campaign and steered clear of major gaffes. His blend of tough talk and bland competence was a deliberate strategy.
‘Trump is trying to break us,’ Carney warns in victory speech
The US President’s actions infuriated Canadians and stoked a surge in nationalism that helped the Liberals flip the narrative and win a fourth straight term in power.
Trump is boosting left-wing victories. That’s bad news for Dutton
America’s president is harming, not helping, other conservative leaders. But what is the reaction within the US?
Mark Carney is about to learn the price of victory
Canada’s prime minister now faces a task Australian politicians should prepare for: balancing a reliance on Chinese trade with America’s new demands.
How Trump handed Canada back to the Liberals
Unfortunately for Poilievre, populists in the English-speaking world outside the US may be handicapped so long as Trump is sitting in the Oval Office.
Trump eases car tariffs; Hrdlicka’s new job; Trade deals’ 2 big problems
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Canada candidates make final pitches in shadow of Vancouver tragedy
It was too early to tell if the mass casualty event in the city would have any impact on the election. Police said they had arrested a 30-year-old Vancouver man.
Global crisis fixer Carney tipped to win Canada’s election
Mark Carney, the new prime minister seeking a full term in Monday’s election, has built his campaign around Donald Trump’s threats to the country and the world.
Poilievre was a sure bet as Canada’s next PM. Then Trump ruined things
The conservative had hoped to make the election a referendum on former PM Justin Trudeau. But his Trump-like style could backfire after the US president’s attacks.
Defending private hospitals is essential to ‘saving Medicare’
At Monday’s Financial Review Healthcare Summit, Mark Butler and Anne Ruston should rule in urgent reform that better balances needs of hospital operators and insurers.
March
Trump moment drives Carney’s ‘Canada First’ election campaign
Even some usually Conservative voters have announced they will vote for the Liberal prime minister based on his promise to handle the bombastic US president.
Trump bump: Global leaders rise in polls by defying US president
Even unpopular leaders like Emmanuel Macron are enjoying some relief from voters as they seek to ward off menaces from tariffs to the threat of US conquest.