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Australia can’t expect ‘business as usual’ with Trump 2.0. So what’s the plan?

There is uncertainty about who is calling the shots at the heart of the Trump administration. That presents risk, and opportunity, for allies like Australia.

  • Michael Koziol

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Nick Adams in Beverley Hills, California in 2024.

The remarkable rise of an Australian deputy mayor to a plum Trump job

Self-described “Alpha Male” influencer Nick Adams has been rewarded by the US president after climbing the ranks of the MAGA movement.

  • Josefine Ganko
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump.

Albanese on US alliance: ‘We aren’t subservient’

Listen to the prime minister’s closed-door remarks on the US alliance, made days before this masthead revealed how the Trump administration could reshape AUKUS.

  • Paul Sakkal
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shake hands before a meeting at the State Department in Washington.

Wong’s trip to Washington may suggest that everything is business as usual. It isn’t

This is an administration that has made its intentions plain. America First is about prioritising US interests and discarding the interests of others, even those of its allies.

  • Michael Koziol
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the G7.

I’ll be there for you: After his welfare revolt bruising, Starmer should call his friend Albanese

Could the Australian PM’s lived experience in facing down tough political challenges offer a path to salvation for Britain’s beleaguered leader?

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was peppered with questions about his knowledge of the US’ strike.

Albanese doesn’t want a bar of Middle East conflict, but that comes at a cost

The federal government looks more distant than ever from the Trump administration despite endorsing its decision to strike.

  • James Massola
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Smoke rises above the Soroka Medical Centre.

Australia urges diplomacy as deadly Israel-Iran strikes ramp up and Trump weighs US options

Australia has closed its embassy in Tehran, while the US president says he’ll decide whether to intervene in the war within two weeks.

The AUKUS review will certainly feature in talks should Anthony Albanese secure a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

What’s the alternative? The many AUKUS questions the PM must answer

With news the United States is reviewing AUKUS, fundamental questions – both old and new – have surfaced about the merits of the $368 billion submarine deal. The Albanese government must confront them.

  • The Age's View
Australians have expressed some of the most negative attitudes towards Donald Trump in the world.

Australians on Trump: dumb, dangerous and dishonest

A global survey shows Australians have some of the most negative attitudes in the world towards the US president.

  • Shane Wright
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have been subjected to targeted financial sanctions and travel bans by Australia.

‘Entirely unacceptable’: Ambassador condemns Australian sanctions on senior Israeli ministers

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are accused of inciting and supporting systemic violence against Palestinians and aggressively expanding illegal settlements.

  • Paul Sakkal and Rob Harris

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