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‘Your head will spin’: What Trump will do on ‘Day One’

Most US presidents are judged on their first 100 days. Donald Trump plans to get plenty done on “Day One”. But how much can he actually pull off?

  • Angus Holland

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Celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis, Eugene Levy, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, and Paris Hilton have been adversely affected by the LA fires.

Flame trees’ fiery warning for tinderbox Aussie bush

The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles hold important lessons for Australia which, like California, has large forests of highly flammable (introduced) eucalypt trees, which are nicknamed “gasoline trees” in the US.

Trump with Greenland and Canada map

So Trump wants Greenland? Don’t laugh, America’s been here before

The president-elect won’t rule out the US seizing Greenland by force, or annexing Canada. But America first made these overtures in 1868.

  • Stuart Rollo
Claudia Sheinbaum gesturing at a map at a point where it shows the words “America Mexicana”.

In message to Trump, Mexico’s president displays old map of ‘Mexican America’

Claudia Sheinbaum gave a sarcastic history lesson to the president-elect, while Canada has also hit back at comments about it becoming the 51st US state.

  • Megan Janetsky
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.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.

Donald Trump won’t rule out use of military to take control of Greenland, Panama Canal

Since the election, Trump has repeatedly raised the idea of seizing control of both, although some have questioned how serious he is on either front.

  • Farrah Tomazin
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Properties and firms owned by Donald Trump and his sons, Eric (centre) and Donald Jr, are set to gain from deals signed with overseas investors.

‘The golden age of America’: Trump signals his family will keep making deals

The scale of overlap between the government he will lead and Trump’s family members and their business interests has been showcased.

  • Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Alan Blinder
It’s embarrassing to be going to war over hair colour and dress codes in schools – chiefly because they don’t matter.

The bank of nan and pop has undermined the fair go

Jordan Baker’s article about the growing ubiquity of the bank of nan and pop in the payment of school fees should make us very concerned about the direction our society has decided to follow.

An artist’s impression of the 29-unit housing block that Homes NSW is proposing to build for seniors in Riverwood in Sydney’s south.

Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!

With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.

Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan.

Trump headaches to dog Fox and the Murdochs in 2025

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch still face massive legal battles stemming from US President-elect Donald Trump’s previous election loss.

  • Colin Kruger

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