Today
Signing nuclear deal would shred Australia’s credibility: Turnbull
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia must make its own decisions, not embrace domestic nuclear power to please its allies.
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- Tom McIlroy and Paul Smith
Trump picks former wrestling CEO as education secretary
Donald Trump says Linda McMahon will fight “tirelessly” to expand universal school choice; Anthony Albanese agrees to renewable energy partnership with India at G20. How the day unfolded.
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- Lucy Slade and Timothy Moore
This Month
- Opinion
- Defence
AUKUS problems go beyond Trump
While people fret about US ties under a Trump presidency, US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy has highlighted some issues go beyond personnel.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- US election
Rudd, Wong scramble to shore up Trump ties in coin-flip election
Senior Albanese government figures met with Mike Pompeo, the former president’s close ally, and others associated with his last administration.
- Andrew Tillett
October
China’s dystopian surveillance operator gets eyes in Canberra
Labor-aligned Hawker Britton recently took on a new client: China’s surveillance giant Hikvision.
- Mark Di Stefano
Inside Labor’s angst over AUKUS
Labor’s opposition to the Vietnam War and 2003 Iraq invasion may have cost it two elections, but they were the right calls, writes former senator Kim Carr in his new book.
- Kim Carr
Australian tanks to help evict Russians from Ukraine
The Albanese government has made a U-turn on gifting the army’s old tanks to Ukraine after months of pleading.
- Andrew Tillett
Sunk cost: how the AUKUS bill keeps rising for taxpayers
The government is preparing to unveil plans for an expansion worth up to $20 billion for Perth’s shipyard - one of Canberra’s biggest ever infrastructure projects.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
Marles staffer complains she is being ‘bullied’ out of her job
Jo Tarnawsky, chief of staff to Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, says she wants the minister and others to be held accountable.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel says Iran an affront to peace as it marks October 7 anniversary
The strongly worded comments from Israel’s ambassador to Australia come as the Jewish state considers a “serious and significant” response against Tehran.
- Andrew Tillett
Anti-Israel rally to go ahead despite safety fears
NSW Police have dropped their opposition to the protests after initially launching court action that would have denied the organisers a permit to occupy city streets.
- Maxim Shanahan and Ronald Mizen
September
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- AUKUS
‘Utterly untrue’: Keating berates Marles over AUKUS defence
Paul Keating launched fresh criticism of the $368 billion agreement, part of internal Labor squabbling over the pact, which has not gone unnoticed in the UK and US.
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- Hans van Leeuwen and Matthew Cranston
Star dives 50pc; Endeavour CEO exits; Negative gearing admission
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2024
There are three new faces on the Power list – plus some big swings in the ranking.
- Tom McIlroy
Afghanistan’s long dark shadow still hangs over the military
Two major reports this week brought home painful reminders of the legacy of Australia’s contribution to the war on terror. Will anything change?
- Andrew Tillett
Veterans lash Marles for stripping medals over war crimes probe
Most of the military officers who will lose their medals are junior and not accused of war crimes themselves, as the government seeks to close the book on a war crimes inquiry.
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- Andrew Tillett
Nine CEO exits; Trump doubts new debate; Putin threat boosts uranium
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Recruit military officers with emotional intelligence, commission says
The royal commission into veterans’ suicide found 3000 serving and ex-serving personnel had taken their life since 1997, an “unacceptably high” number.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- Federal election
From Beaconsfield to Bruce: Labor’s loss will be education’s gain
Bill Shorten will rival, if not supplant, Kim Beazley as the best prime minister Labor never had.
- Phillip Coorey
Australia backs Japan over Chinese spy plane ‘invasion’
Australia, Japan and the US will knit their militaries more tightly together following high-level talks.
- Andrew Tillett