November
Dropping net zero dead parrot ditches deceiving the Australian people
The Coalition has, belatedly, settled on a game-changing strategy focused on affordable and reliable energy, one calibrated to international action.
Eight dead in explosion near Red Fort in India’s New Delhi
The exact cause of the explosion was not immediately known and is being investigated. The 17th-century fort was located in the old city and was a tourist destination.
‘I was sitting on a bench’: How a chance encounter led to a $5b empire
Vikas Rambal came to Australia from India in 2000 with a return ticket, but a lucky moment sparked his dream to build a huge fertiliser plant.
October
Sacked staff and rusty sites: Trump’s nuke test plans run into trouble
The president says the US needs to resume explosions to keep up with China and Russia. Even a simple test would cost millions, but that’s not the hardest part.
CBA caught advertising roles in India for redundant positions
The Fair Work Commission has asked the bank to provide “further context” around proposed redundancies, and how they differ from roles advertised in India.
September
Cybersecurity an illusion as ‘Q day’ looms
Our data is already under attack from AI, but now cyber “thugs and thieves” are relishing what advances in quantum computing might give them access to.
Price’s defiance on Indian community stirs Liberal tensions
The senator’s refusal to apologise to the Indian community is reopening factional fault lines within the party and stirring resentment in the diaspora.
Canva and Atlassian say AI not to blame for staff departures
Software giants have been battling cultural issues since introducing stricter performance management rules and shedding jobs.
Australia’s Indian community is growing fast. And it votes
The diaspora has grown four-fold since 2006 and is not afraid of party politics.
Jacinta Price deepens Libs’ divide from migrant Australia
Saying sorry for her ill-judged and divisive remarks is the least she should do to help repair the damage she has done to the Liberal Party and to the nation’s social cohesion.
Why politicians are obsessing about the Indian vote
The new generation of Indo-Pacific migrants tends to be aspirational and transactional and hence more right-wing in the choices they make concerning private education and health insurance.
Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear war thriller electrifies Venice
The Oscar-winning director’s first movie in nearly 10 years, “A House of Dynamite,” is a nail-biter starring Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba.
In a Trumpian world, Australia needs friends like India
India still offers Australia more growth opportunities than any single market globally. And the Indian diaspora here is going from strength to strength.
India has offered to slash tariffs to ‘nothing’, says Trump
As Narendra Modi embraced Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping at a summit in China, the US president took to social media to claim India had caved on tariffs.
August
Xi, Modi vow stronger ties in rival front to US
China’s President Xi Jinping is hosting a security summit that includes Vladimir Putin, aimed at showing a reshaped global order that snubs Donald Trump.
Trump smashes India with 50pc ‘head-spinning’ tariffs
The levies, among the highest in the world, are a punishment for the country’s purchase of Russian oil and are certain to hit the fast-growing economy hard.
Is Donald Trump pushing India and Japan closer to China?
There are no winners, only losers, as America’s soft power declines and Australia is forced to focus its foreign policy energy elsewhere.
India-US oil spat could delay Albanese-Trump meeting
The first face-to-face chat between the Australian and American leaders, cancelled at the G7 due to Middle East tensions, may now face a further postponement.
Trump’s economic war on India is certain to backfire
The US president’s decision to slap huge tariffs means American companies can no longer use the South Asian giant as a friendly counterweight to China.
Trump lifts tariff on India to 50pc over Russian oil buys
A spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs called the US president’s announcement “unfair, unjustified and unreasonable”.