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Samuel ClenchEurope correspondent

Sam covers politics, with the occasional foray into entertainment news. He previously worked in the Canberra press gallery and as news.com.au’s US correspondent. Sam led our coverage of the 2016 and 2020 US elections and hit the campaign trail for the Australian federal elections in 2019 and 2022 – but you’re probably more likely to recognize him as our resident Game of Thrones nerd.

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Peter Dutton on Paul Murray Live on Tuesday night. Picture: Sky News

‘Just horrific’: Dutton recounts dark memory

Peter Dutton has shared a traumatic memory from his time as a police officer – in the name of highlighting an important challenge Australia faces.

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Peter Dutton has defended the Coalition's reasons for accepting Pauline Hanson preferences. Picture: NewsWire

Dutton grilled on One Nation preferences

One Nation has put most Coalition candidates second on their how to vote cards, ending a 30-year-old standoff with the Liberal Party over preferences.

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Anthony Albanese on 7.30 on Monday night. Picture: ABC 7.30

‘What’s the answer?’: PM brutally grilled

Anthony Albanese’s pre-election interview on 7.30 was sometimes testy, as host Sarah Ferguson repeatedly sought clearer answers.

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The Dutton campaign's media bus has become stuck on a median strip in the Sydney CBD on Monday morning.

Dutton’s bus gets stuck in Sydney’s CBD

The bus carrying journalists following Peter Dutton on the campaign trail became stuck, delaying the Opposition Leader’s blitz plans.

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton appearing on A Current Affair with host Allison Langdon. 28/4/2025. Picture: ACA

‘Change the culture:’ Dutton’s DV pledge

Peter Dutton made a passionate plea for change on A Current Affair on Monday night, taking aim at what he called the “scourge” of domestic violence in Australia.

US Politics

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on April 3, 2025. Trump is travelling to the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida before going to his Mar-a-Lago resort. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

‘Never seen before’: Trump’s huge power grab

Donald Trump’s efforts to hoard power for himself, usurping it from the courts and US Congress, is “unprecedented”, an expert has warned.

US Politics

US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2025, as he returns after attending a dinner at his club in Virginia. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Proof Trump has gone completely rogue

The evidence is mounting. Donald Trump’s pattern of behaviour is now impossible to miss. And the world might be sleepwalking into another crisis.

US Politics

(FILES) (COMBO) This combination image of two pictures created on April 4, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump (L) in Miami, Florida, on April 3, 2025, and China's President Xi Jinping (R) in Beijing on March 5, 2025. With his storm of tariffs on Chinese goods, US President Donald Trump on April 2025 has torched ties with Beijing and likely wrecked any hope of meeting his counterpart Xi Jinping in the near term, analysts say. (Photo by Mandel NGAN and Pedro Pardo / AFP) / To go with AFP story China-US-diplomacy-politics-trade-economy,ANALYSIS by Matthew Walsh

Furious China tells Trump to ‘just stop’

Donald Trump has claimed that Beijing and DC are already in talks about tariffs, but China has said the direct oposite.

US Politics

Claims of ongoing trade talks with Washington are “baseless”, China has said.

China calls BS on Trump’s latest tariff claim

Beijing’s comments come a day after Donald Trump suggested there were active discussions with China about tariffs.

US Politics

US President Donald Trump attends the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. According to the US National Park Service, the egg roll tradition dates back to 1878 when President Rutherford B. Hayes invited children to roll Easter eggs on the White House grounds. Children previously rolled eggs down a hill at the US Capitol in the early 1870s, but a law was passed in 1876 forbidding the Capitol property from being used due to the toll on the lawn. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

‘Limitless’: Trump’s own side freaks out

Conservative legal experts have spoken out about Donald Trump’s latest actions, warning that he’s blatantly violating America’s laws.

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