March 2024
‘Dangerous lunatic, but good for markets’: Business on Trump
Corporate heavyweights including John Wylie, Danny Gilbert and Gerry Harvey don’t have much time for Trump. But is Biden any better?
October 2023
‘If Abbott and Keating are getting money, who else?’
A public integrity advocate says reported payments to ex-prime ministers by Anthony Pratt raise broader concerns about the payment of pensions to retired politicians.
September 2023
‘Culture of corruption’: Biden to face impeachment inquiry
House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy has called for a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden following months of investigations.
April 2023
Fever pitch in New York as Trump set to be arraigned
Trump will become the first former US president to face criminal charges and has egged on his supporters to protest as he prepares to appear in court.
March 2023
Historic Trump charges spark anger
Donald Trump, who is campaigning for the 2024 presidential nomination, said the charges of providing hush money to a porn star are politically motivated.
What banking crisis? Trump arrest talk steals America’s attention
The United States, wracked by a banking crisis, is riveted by the former president’s possible indictment over alleged hush money to a porn star.
October 2022
January 6 panel votes to subpoena Donald Trump
The committee presented interviews with Mr Trump’s aides and new documents detailing his unflagging efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
August 2022
FBI gives Trump a poll bump, but Republicans still nervous
The former president might be getting some sympathy from his base, but the FBI raid could prove a distraction for the GOP in November’s midterm elections.
June 2022
Trump repeatedly told plan to quash election was ‘nuts’, ‘crazy’
The third hearing into the Capitol attacks detailed the enormous pressure facing the former vice-president to put in place Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the election.
January 2022
American democracy is tougher than people think
After last year’s Capitol riots, President Joe Biden vows ‘never, never again’, as US democracy draws support from decentralisation and checks and balances.
February 2021
America must move on from the Trump show
The hard political truth here is that for America to truly move on from Donald Trump, Joe Biden will need to at least match his predecessor on China and the economy.
Trump vows ‘radiant return’ despite GOP condemnation
Donald Trump vowed to re-emerge with a “bright, radiant” vision for America after surviving a Senate trial for inciting an insurrection that Washington’s most powerful Republican said he was morally responsible for, but for which he should not be convicted.
Acquittal confirms cult of Trump dilemma for GOP
Now that Republicans have passed up an opportunity to banish him through impeachment, it is not clear how they can transform their party into something other than a vessel for a semi-retired demagogue who was repudiated by a majority of voters.
Democrats could have pressed harder to impeach Trump
The Democrats may have pulled their punches but the acquittal has left many feeling justice was done to the office of the president, if not to Trump.
‘I am a champion of the law’: Trump after acquittal
The Senate voted 57-43 to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting the riot at US Capitol, leaving Democrats short of the two-thirds majority they needed to convict him.
Defence sounded a lot like Trump himself
The trial of Donald Trump has adjourned for the day. It will resume tomorrow during which final arguments will be made and votes cast.
Trump’s Team concludes incendiary impeachment defence
The former president’s lawyers channelled Donald Trump’s own combative style and embrace of falsehoods to claim, contrary to facts, that Trump never glorified violence.
Takeaways from Day Four of Trump’s impeachment trial
A heavy dose of whataboutism, the free speech argument and lecturing on facts, while getting facts wrong: Trump’s defence for “audience of one”.
Democrats rest their case, but most Republicans are not swayed
Confident of acquittal, Trump was spotted on a golf course in Florida while his defence team prepared a truncated presentation to offer on Friday rather than take the full two days for arguments permitted by trial rules.
Trump trial day three: ‘he would do it again’ - prosecution rests
Democrat prosecutors closed two days of emotionally-charged arguments against Donald Trump with a warning that he would incite violence again if returned to office; Trump’s lawyers will start their defence on Saturday. All the day’s events here.