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James MorrowNational Affairs Editor

James Morrow is the Daily Telegraph’s National Affairs Editor. James also hosts The US Report, Fridays at 8.00pm and co-anchor of top-rating Sunday morning discussion program Outsiders with Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean on Sundays at 9.00am on Sky News Australia.

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A VOTE TRUMP decorated cargo shipping container is displayed during the World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California on February 11, 2025. US farmers have also been affected by the Trump administration's attempts to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the US government previously spending billions of dollars on food aid from American farmers, while tariffs and trade wars threaten to disrupt business. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Less migrants, more tariffs: New poll shows how politicians dud Aussie voters

A new report finds an electorate that is far more economically interventionist than so-called elites, but also a lot more socially conservative, writes James Morrow.

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Bankstown Hospital workers brag about ‘killing’ Israeli patients

Two Sydney nurses have been stood down after they were filmed declaring they refuse to treat Israeli patients and would “kill them” if they presented to their ward.

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An employee in front of a steel furnace at BlueScope Steel Ltd. Port Kembla steelworks in Port Kembla, Australia, on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The world's two biggest miners, BHP Group Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group, are teaming up in a bid to develop Australia's first electric-smelting furnace, in what could prove an important step toward slashing emissions in the steel-making process. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

Albanese’s ‘great’ call with Trump turned out to be a dud, so why can’t Dutton capitalise?

The Prime Minister’s failure to get an Australian exemption from American steel and aluminium tariffs is emblematic of his all talk, no action style, writes James Morrow.

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US President Donald Trump (R), trailed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (C) and Vice President JD Vance (L), arrives to speak about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Divers pulled bodies from the icy waters of Washington's Potomac river Thursday after a US military helicopter collided midair with a passenger plane carrying 64 people, with officials saying there were likely no survivors. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Trump’s cabinet of youth: A changing of the guard

The average age of key cabinet and White House officials in the new Trump administration is 54.1 years – the youngest presidential leadership team this century.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 5, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Plot thickens: Prime Minister’s sad stunt is wearing very thin

At a crucial time for both the nation and his party, the ongoing question of what Anthony Albanese knew about that caravan of explosives in Sydney and when did he know is slowly consuming his government’s credibility.

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Trump’s audacious plan for peace seems far fetched, but is it?

Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over the Gaza Strip seems bizarre. But seen through the lens of a president who wants to put an end to festering global conflict, it makes total sense writes James Morrow.

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Trump’s audacious plan for peace seems far fetched, but is it?

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Trump is remaking the world order, but do Albanese and Dutton get it?

Trump’s appeals to American greatness are in one sense deeply conservative, but his program is fundamentally revolutionary, writes James Morrow.

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PM can’t cut-and-run from terror plot intelligence fail, says Dutton

Peter Dutton has called for an urgent probe into a communications failure between state and federal leaders over Sydney’s foiled anti-Semitic terror plot, saying the Prime Minister can’t continue to cut-and-run from the controversy.

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MELBOURNE, VICTORIA - January 29, 2025: Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers to hold press conference in central Melbourne as the December quarter and monthly inflation figures are released by the ABS. Picture: NewsWire / Nadir Kinani

‘I’m sorry’: Chalmers’ backflip for implying Jewish fears ‘unfounded’

Jim Chalmers has bowed to calls to apologise after being roundly slammed for “out-of-touch” comments suggesting the community’s fears over anti-Semitic attacks were sometimes “unfounded”.

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