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David Rowe cartoons for November 2024

David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.

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  • David Rowe
Malcolm Turnbull said the federal government had to stand up for Australia’s national interest in order to be credible.

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.

  • 1 hr ago
  • 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
Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd and US President-elect Donald Trump.

US leadership ‘indispensable’ even with Trump: Rudd

In his first comments since the former president’s comeback, the Australian ambassador in Washington says he is ready to work with the new White House.

  • Andrew Tillett
President of China, Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ahead of a group photo at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.

G20 goes soft on Russia as Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons

The G20 has ended with a whimper with watered-down statements on Russia, climate change and the Middle East.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Michelle Levy recommended a shake-up of the financial advice sector.

Michelle Levy backs big super, Labor in financial advice fee fight

The Quality of Advice Review chairwoman has backed big super funds and Labor’s bid to allow funds to share the cost of financial advice across their membership bases.

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  • Hannah Wootton
Private and Catholic school students are getting most of the VCE special examination arrangements.

Hackers are targeting private schools for blackmail

Private schools emerge as a new battleground in the fight against cyberattacks, as the average cost to victims jumps to $30,000.

  • Andrew Tillett
Potential Chinese students predict more policy chaos in the aftermath of caps being dumped.

Chinese social media users slam foreign student chaos

Students and university leaders are digesting what the blocking of student caps legislation mean for them.

  • Julie Hare
Peter Dutton says the government and the universities are contributing to an “onshore disaster”.

Dutton vows ‘deeper cuts’ to student enrolments, migration numbers

The opposition leader says Labor’s management of migration has been an “onshore disaster”, but he has declined to detail the Coalition’s policy.

  • Tom McIlroy and Julie Hare
CFMEU national boss Paddy Crumlin’s Cbus board nomination has been accepted.

Cbus signs off on new CFMEU directors

The fund said all three directors had passed fit and proper person tests; James Packer backs “friend” Alan Jones amid fresh charges. How the day unfolded.

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  • Lucy Slade and Timothy Moore
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

G20 stumbles on billionaire tax, climate and war

The Group of 20 Leaders’ summit is on track to fall well short of its stated goals this year – again.

  • Phillip Coorey
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the G20 summit.

Albanese lays out his red line after Xi demands more access for China

Xi Jinping has rekindled a key demand that Australia provide greater foreign investment access to Chinese interests in return for increased trade.

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  • Phillip Coorey

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Martijn Wilder and the board of the NRF make commercial decisions independent of the government.

Labor’s $15b reconstruction fund makes landmark first investment

Donald Trump’s retreat from the renewable energy transition is good timing for plans to reboot domestic manufacturing, says the National Reconstruction Fund head.

  • Tom McIlroy

Foreign student cap plan’s collapse is a sign of the times

Migration is gaining momentum as a policy area voters want the government to deal with. And politicians are tapping into the zeitgeist.

  • Julie Hare
Based on assumptions circulated by Treasury last week, Macquarie would pay up to $75 million under the proposed system.

Macquarie could pass on bank levy to home borrowers

Banking disrupter Macquarie would jack up interest rates on mortgages or even leave the retail market altogether under a rural service proposed levy, an analyst says.

  • Lucas Baird, John Kehoe and Tom McIlroy
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Outgoing US ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy distanced herself from her cousin’s views on vaccines.

‘Dangerous’: Caroline Kennedy on her cousin RFK jnr

Outgoing US envoy to Australia Caroline Kennedy says her cousin Robert’s vaccine scepticism is “dangerous” as he prepares to become Donald Trump’s health tsar.

  • Andrew Tillett
A bid to cap international student places has been blocked after the Greens and Coalition banded together.

Unis, colleges brace for chaos after foreign student cap plan blocked

The $51 billion international education sector is bracing for a new wave of student visa rejections after the government’s signature migration plan was killed off.

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  • Julie Hare
Alan Jones arrives at Day Street police station after his arrest.

Alan Jones charged with 24 offences against eight victims

NSW Police say media reports helped spur on Alan Jones investigation; Peter Dutton says foreign student caps are chaotic and confusing. How the day unfolded.

  • Updated
  • Lucy Slade
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and fiancee Jodie Haydon take their seats before a Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

Australia and allies lift pressure on G20 and Trump over Ukraine

Anthony Albanese says conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are key drivers of hunger, poverty, high inflation and rises in energy prices, and world leaders should acknowledge this.

  • Phillip Coorey
Anthony Albanese arrives in Rio for the G20 with this partner Jodie Haydon.

PM to meet Xi, tell G2O to show a backbone on Ukraine, Middle East

At the G20, Anthony Albanese says conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are key drivers of hunger, poverty and high inflation and energy prices and world leaders should acknowledge this.

  • Phillip Coorey

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