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Jacinta Nampijimpa Price with Peter Dutton and Michaelia Cash.

Jacinta Price pledges to ‘make Australia great again’

The firebrand Coalition senator echoed Donald Trump’s signature pledge during a campaign where Labor has been trying to link the opposition to the US president.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Matthew Knott

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US President Donald Trump talks to reporters on board Air Force One.

Trump undergoes physical and cognitive exams, says he has ‘a very good soul’

The soon-to-be 79-year-old, who is a fan of pizza, KFC and Big Macs, spent several hours being poked and prodded by the doctors at Walter Reed Medical Centre.

  • Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff greet each other before their talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, overnight.

Trump envoy proposes dividing Ukraine like Berlin after World War II

Donald Trump’s two foreign envoys, General Keith Kellogg and Steve Witkoff, propose ceasefire conditions more appealing to Vladimir Putin.

  • Benedict Smith and Verity Bowman
Donald Trump’s tariff policies have sent markets on a roller coast ride.

Cheaper fuel? Five ways the market meltdown affects you

Super balances, home loan repayments and the price of petrol could all be affected by the recent mayhem on financial markets.

  • Clancy Yeates

The politics of grievance was a winner for Trump. It’s not working for Dutton

Excited by dominance in meaningless midterm polls, misled by the false analogy of Trump’s political success, the Coalition allowed itself to think it could win without doing the work required.

  • Peter Hartcher

Trump’s made nationalism great again, just not in America

Rather than jingoistic chest-thumping, Trumpism has stirred a stoical civic pride in the things that differentiate individual countries from the US.

  • Nick Bryant
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China Trump tariffs

China says US stands to become ‘a joke in the history of the world economy’

After lifting tariffs on US goods again, to 125 per cent, China’s Finance Ministry signalled Beijing would no longer go tit-for-tat with the Trump administration.

  • Lisa Visentin and Michael Koziol
Stock prices are displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Stock prices are displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Stock prices are displayed at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

ASX closes in the red after Wall Street tumbles on US-China tensions

The Australian sharemarket finished a turbulent week in the red, with miners falling after Wall Street slumped overnight.

  • Gemma Grant
Donald Trump is staring across the table at the “inscrutable” President Xi Jinping, writes Tom Dolan.

Xi holds more cards than Trump in trade showdown

With the two leaders standing eyeball to eyeball as global markets whipsaw around them, who will blink?

  • Lisa Visentin
Elon Musk

Musk’s latest DOGE savings goal seems to be short a few zeros

Elon Musk initially promised to cut $US2 trillion from the federal budget. He now appears to have set the goal lower for a second time.

  • David A. Fahrenthold and Maggie Haberman

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