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Vice President J.D. Vance at the US military base in Greenland.

Denmark, Vance raise tensions over Greenland ownership

Denmark’s prime minister will visit Greenland this week, hot on the heels of J.D Vance’s trip to the territory which ruffled feathers and lasted just hours.

This week shapes as the big one for Donald Trump and his tariff extravaganza.

The market playbooks are being rewritten after just three months

We’re in uncharted waters and people are listening to the captain to differing degrees, but there is a truckload of money to be made somewhere.

Donald Trump has revived the idea of a universal tariff that would apply to most imports.

Trump pushes aides to go bigger on tariffs as Liberation Day nears

Wall Street is urging restraint, but the president has privately told advisers the import duties are a generational opportunity to transform the US economy.

Donald Trump is reviving the tariff strategy that caused a depression in the 1930s.

My SMSF is cashed up for a Trump catastrophe

The global economic chaos unleashed by the president prompted this self-managed super fund to cut exposure to the United States and raise cash.

President Donald Trump arrives to play golf at his course in Florida.

Trump warns EU companies to comply with his DEI ban

The move signals a push by the American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad.

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Yesterday

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport.

Trump says he’s open to negotiations on tariffs

The US president, however, said he still planned to unveil a reciprocal tariff program on April 2 as he seeks to boost domestic manufacturing.

Vice President J.D. Vance, left, and second lady Usha Vance pose during a tour of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland.

Vance slams Denmark for not keeping Greenland safe

The US vice president, without being specific, said the Danish territory had endured “a lot of very aggressive incursions” from Russia, China and other nations.

Donald Trump is set to unleash another wave of tariffs in early April.

US consumer spending edges higher, key inflation metric rises

The data represent a double whammy for the economy before the brunt of tariffs from President Donald Trump.

This Month

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a meeting with international business in Beijing.

China’s Xi meets global CEOs to urge trade stability

The Chinese president has called on business leaders to work together to protect supply chains, amid rising tensions with the Trump administration.

Foreign policy could intrude on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s re-election campaign.

Albanese flags win on climate talks but tariffs, Ukraine unresolved

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted Australia is close to securing rights to host the next United Nations’ climate conference.

Why Albanese is confident of winning – partly thanks to Trump

The government quietly hopes the Trump effect will boost its chances, but the focus of the election campaign will be resolutely on domestic cost-of-living pressures.

Donald Trump

Trump team’s bumbling chat leaks just the beginning

Trump’s top officials have a disregard for rules and safeguards that has trickled down from the US president himself, putting national security at risk.

Mark Carney

Carney says US no longer a reliable trade partner

The Canadian prime minister has vowed there will be a “renegotiation” of the two allies’ trade agreement in the face of Donald Trump’s hostility.

A US Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 takes off in Bangalore during India’s air show.

Allies rethink F-35 fighter jets over Trump’s ‘kill switch’

Some of America’s allies are considering dumping plans to buy the $127 million US plane, as the president upends traditional military alliances.

Jon Gray says it’s a good time to expand in Australia.

Here’s Blackstone’s next big target in Australia

Just months after spending $24 billion to buy AirTrunk, Blackstone president Jon Gray has another big Australian market on his agenda.

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Robert F Kennedy jnr.

Kennedy to slash 10,000 jobs in US health overhaul

Cuts include 3500 at the Food and Drug Administration, 2400 at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1200 at the National Institutes of Health.

ANU vice chancellor Genevieve Bell was paid $70,000 for just 24 hours work for Intel.

Trump administration cut $1m funding for ANU terrorism research

ANU lost a $923,000 US-funded research grant into terrorism and targeted violence because it no longer “effectuates the priorities” of its backer, the Department of Homeland Security.

US President Donald Trump displays a signed automotive tariff executive order in the Oval Office.

Car parts makers plead for tariff exemption as Trump fuels trade war

Australia-made car parts worth $200 million in sales are in the firing line of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Pressure on Hegseth grows as strike texts revealed

The revelation that sensitive attack plans were shared on a commercial messaging app, possibly on personal mobile phones, has triggered outrage in Washington.

Anthony Albanese speaks during question time in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

PM set to call the election on Friday

Albanese’s department accidentally says government is in takeover mode on X; ANU staff support no confidence vote in leadership. How the day unfolded.

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