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One ally has turned on Trump. Will Albanese and Dutton dare to take a swing?

Canada’s political leaders vow an eye for an eye against the US president’s tariffs. Why are Australia’s leaders more circumspect?

  • David Crowe

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Politicians have been telling us powerful lies for years. It’s about to get worse

Australians have been misled about power prices for years – and the fake claims will get worse now the election campaign is so close.

  • David Crowe
Clive Palmer, Trumpet of Patriots chairman and party spokesperson, poses for cameras ahead of an address to the National Press Club.

‘I’ll have to bow and apologise’: Palmer admits mistake while stoking gender war

Palmer targeted transgender issues in a National Press Club address on Thursday, while at the same time claiming Australia’s public debate was being derailed by the topic.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Despite forceful WFH agenda, Dutton makes pledge to women voters

The opposition leader has promised female voters there won’t be an American-style reversal of women’s rights if he becomes prime minister.

  • Sylvia Jeffreys
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Trump has done us a favour by showing where we stand during peacetime

Donald Trump’s decision on tariffs is another reminder that he has cast aside old friends and embraced traditional US enemies, Russia most conspicuously.

  • Peter Hartcher
Clive Palmer at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra last month.

The recurring irritant of Australian politics has returned

Voters have repeatedly rejected Clive Palmer’s attempts to buy electoral success. Now, his Trumpet of Patriots party is parroting the policies of Donald Trump.

  • The Age's View
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Opposition frontbencher Jane Hume.

Coalition makes formal complaint over pro-teal spin in ‘fake newspaper’

Gazette News, which pays to boost stories about teal MPs, said its local news outlets were not linked to any political movement.

  • Paul Sakkal
Clive Palmer holding a press conference to launch his new political party in February.

Backlash over Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots gender advertisements

Transgender and equality advocacy groups are outraged over a series of political ads published in major newspapers.

  • Calum Jaspan
Peter Dutton and opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson address the media.

How Peter Dutton got it wrong on the caravan – and why voters need to know it

Dutton went harder than Anthony Albanese or Chris Minns on the caravan found filled with explosives on Sydney’s fringe, because he had a political objective.

  • David Crowe
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

How Trump and Alfred will both wreak havoc on budget the PM did not want to have

Donald Trump’s tariff war has increased fears of a US recession. A recession, and the growing cost of a GST, are now hitting Jim Chalmers’ budget plans.

  • Shane Wright

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