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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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25 FEBRUARY 2025. The Defence Department has released more pictures of the Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea, which have now moved back into Australia's EEZ and are roughly 300 kilometres east of Hobart. Peopleâs Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang. *** Local Caption *** As part of Australiaâs whole-of-government maritime border protection efforts, Defence routinely monitors all maritime traffic in our Exclusive Economic Zone and maritime approaches. Australia respects the right of all states under international law to exercise freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace, just as we expect others to respect our right to do the same. Picture: Australian Defence Force

China caught Australia napping. This is why it’s a problem

The Albanese government was caught napping when Chinese warships showed up off the coast of Australia. And two countries would be watching closely.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 21, 2025. Federal Minister Tony Burke at the citizenship ceremony at Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Don’t buy Burke’s flag-draped excuse for backyard citizenship blitz

Tony Burke may claim that his mass citizenship drive was about nationhood, not votes, but Labor’s record tells a very different story, writes James Morrow.

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Peter Dutton. left and Antohnoy Albanese, right. Pictures: News Corp

Unhealthy: Labor, Coalition auction off future with big cash promises

The Coalition will lose a bidding war with Labor. It’s the young couple bidding for the derelict semi with a tight budget. Labor’s the slick property developer pulling up in the Porsche.

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Is Albanese more concerned about China trade than our sovereignty

Anthony Albanese slammed Scott Morrison over China’s security pact with the Solomon Islands. Now, with Beijing flexing its muscles again Albanese is downplaying tensions, raising concerns he prioritises trade over our sovereignty, writes James Morrow.

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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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