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Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel

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The cost of high speed trains.

Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail

Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.

Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would always look at ways to strengthen Medicare.

Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history

Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.

The Trumps and the Morrisons

Scott Morrison spends New Year’s Eve with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

The former Australian prime minister and his wife partied their way into 2025 at the president-elect’s Florida estate.

  • James Massola
Kevin Rudd (right), Ambassador of Australia to the United States, hosting members of the US Congress at the annual Friends of Australia Caucus Dinner in Washington DC. Credit: Kevin Rudd/X

Meet Australia’s best friend in Washington... no, not Kevin Rudd

A man known as “Two Sub Joe” has become Canberra’s can-do contact with Washington’s powerbrokers.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd and US President-elect Donald Trump.

Rudd operates as ‘foreign minister’ in DC: Top Biden adviser

US President Joe Biden’s top adviser on Asia has strongly backed Kevin Rudd, after the former PM made his first public comments since Donald Trump’s election victory.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
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US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy Jr

‘Dangerous’: Caroline Kennedy blasts cousin RFK Jr’s vaccine views

The departing US ambassador said: “I grew up with him, so I’ve known all this for a long time; others are just getting to know him.”

  • Matthew Knott
Donald Trump and Kevin Rudd.

Please don’t send Kevin Rudd home, Mr Trump. He’s our favourite export

Donald Trump, Your Elective Majesty, you have much in common with our man in Washington. You just need to consider the “detailed programmatic specificity”.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Illustration by Joe Benke.

Murdoch’s Ruddicide will fail. Here’s why Trump will warm to our Kevin

News Corp wants Kevin Rudd removed from his Washington post, but the envoy has already built a network within the Trump 2.0 White House.

  • Peter Hartcher
Season 2, Episode 6 of The Diplomat titled Dreadnought fictionalises the Australian government’s decision to cancel their plan to buy French submarines in favour of the nuclear powered submarines built under the AUKUS agreement.

Australia backstabs France over submarines, you couldn’t script it. But they did

Season 2 of Netflix’s The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as the US ambassador to the UK – and Australia as a back-stabbing support act.

  • Karl Quinn

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