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Software engineers enlisted to work for DOGE and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, left to right: Ethan Shaotran, 22, Luke Farritor, 23, Gavin Kliger, 25, Edward Coristine, 19, Akash Bobba, 21, Gautier Cole Killian, 24.

‘Muskovites’: The baby-faced squad dismantling foreign aid

America’s USAID is being pulled apart by a band of 19-24-year-old tech proteges hand-picked to slash government spending.

  • Cameron Henderson

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Demonstrators outside the US Agency for International Development (USAID) headquarters in Washington.

‘Unlawful power grab’: Democrats declare war on DOGE amid ‘Elon takeover’ of government agencies

The Elon Musk-led attack on USAID and reports the businessman’s team had gained access to the Treasury’s massive payments system spurred Democrats into action.

  • Michael Koziol
The Business Council of Australia wants a Trump-style war on red tape in Australia.

Axe the red tape: Big business presses for Trump-like attack on regulation

Heads of some of the nation’s biggest companies are pressing both major parties to take a leaf out of the Trump administration by cutting red tape.

  • Shane Wright
Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese.

‘Astounding’: Dutton turns up heat over PM’s knowledge of caravan plot

Peter Dutton’s demand for more detail comes as NSW Police says it has established crime scenes in Sydney’s eastern suburbs after discovering antisemitic graffiti.

  • Matthew Knott and Sally Rawsthorne
Sixteen members of the National Socialist Network were arrested in Adelaide when they marched on Australia Day.

Musk’s X enables Australia’s neo-Nazis, warn Coalition and online watchdog

White supremacists and leaders of Australia’s National Socialist Network (NSN) were previously banned or censored on X before returning in the past year or so. 

  • Paul Sakkal

No worries? How a fractured Australia lost its laid-back spirit

Even our lamb ads portray a fraying of national cohesion. From antisemitic terror to political polarisation, we’re not as relaxed as we like to imagine.

  • Nick Bryant
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Elon Musk is returning to a familiar playbook with his new role in Washington.

‘Knife-at-your-throat feeling’: How Elon Musk is shaking up Washington

The world’s richest person has brought the same tactics used in his takeover of Twitter to the US government

  • Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Friday.

‘Straight from the Trump playbook’: Dutton flags cultural diversity jobs are in the firing line

The opposition leader says such programs and positions “do nothing to improve the lives of everyday Australians”.

  • Olivia Ireland
Sussan Ley and Elon Musk on a Mars landscape.

Sussan Ley adds Elon from Mars to her spacey view of Australian history

The deputy Liberal leader added a letter to her name in a quest for lifelong excitement. Now she’s added the space adventures of Musk to her out-there view of Australia Day.

  • Tony Wright
Musk, Dutton efficiency.

Dutton’s enthusiasm for DOGE is just old tricks with a new name

Elon Musk says he can make the American government great again with deep spending cuts. It’s a lesson that could end in trouble for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

  • Shane Wright

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