Kevin Rudd
Australians studying in the US to face tougher social media screening
Ambassador Kevin Rudd has also asked to meet Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to discuss the Trump administration’s ban on international students at Harvard.
- Michael Koziol
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‘Distressing for Australian students’: Trump blocks Harvard’s international enrolments
Harvard said the latest crackdown, which affects thousands of students including Australians and could be expanded to other universities, was illegal and amounted to retaliation.
- Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson
‘A tax on Bluey’: Rudd mocks Trump’s movie tariffs
Australia’s ambassador to the US lampooned the proposed movie tariffs and ridiculed the Trump administration’s bid to impose 10 per cent tariffs on uninhabited islands.
- Michael Koziol
Kevin Rudd warns against showing weakness on Ukraine
In a Washington Anzac Day speech, Australia’s ambassador to the US says one of the messages from the Anzac story is that defending freedom takes human, physical and individual courage.
- Michael Koziol
Colourful underworld lawyer cops fine from law society
Underworld lawyer and amateur boxer Ahmed Dib has a colourful new partner and a slap on the wrist from the Law Society.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Beware of dodgy home battery installers
Could a huge take-up of the battery offer see a flood of unqualified installers coming out of the woodwork as it did for Kevin Rudd’s pink batts scheme?
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump’s tariffs: Friends with few benefits and foes with plenty
The Australian government was confident about an exemption from Trump’s trade imposts but as it turned out, that privilege was reserved only for enemies.
- Peter Hartcher
- Editorial
- Trade wars
Australia must bolster other partnerships as Trump pursues magical thinking
The effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on China and our other Asian trading partners will have inescapable economic consequences for us.
- The Age's View
- Inside story
- Trump diplomacy
Australia offered Trump critical minerals. This is how he sold us fool’s gold
The government needed to present Trump with a deal he couldn’t refuse. But what could Australia offer him?
- Matthew Knott
- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
Only a handful of Australians have stood in the Oval Office with Trump. Arthur Sinodinos is one of them
Our former envoy to Washington says instead of abandoning the alliance with the US, we should impress on Trump that he needs us more than we need him.
- Peter FitzSimons
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