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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a ceremonial welcome on his arrival in Nadi, Fiji.

PM’s meeting with Trump in doubt as Middle East conflict escalates

Anthony Albanese has warned Australians to avoid the Middle East as he visits Fiji before heading to the US and the G7 meeting in Canada.

  • Paul Sakkal, James Massola and Natassia Chrysanthos
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump

The most important meeting of Albanese’s career just got trickier

The Australian PM is not yet sure of a sit-down with Donald Trump at the G7 summit, but if they meet, he needs to come away with at least one win.

  • James Massola
The future Virginia-class attack submarine.

Give Trump ‘a new Pine Gap’, say experts claiming AUKUS go-slow

Senior Australian government sources say the snap AUKUS review might be designed to gain leverage as Americans push Australia to spend more on defence.

  • Paul Sakkal
The trade war is morphing into a capital war.

‘Time to wake up’: Turnbull, opposition seize on Trump’s AUKUS review

Defence Minister Richard Marles and AUKUS architect Scott Morrison insist they are confident the United States will keep supporting the $368 billion submarine deal.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Paul Sakkal, Michael Koziol and Rob Harris
Donald Trump has re-litigated America’s relationship with Europe, but he has undermined the Australian-US alliance.

Trump’s AUKUS review is routine, not a harbinger of collapse

The US has too much to gain from Australia and AUKUS to abandon them. The real risk is Australia losing its nerve.

  • Jennifer Parker
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The leaders of the AUKUS nations, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left), Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump.

AUKUS is a disaster for Australia. Trump has given us an out – let’s take it

We were never likely to get any submarines, and all the deal does is tie us ever closer to an increasingly volatile and aggressive America.

  • Dr Emma Shortis
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Albanese must make Trump an offer he can’t refuse

Anthony Albanese needs to make AUKUS great again by super-sizing the existing deal and offering the Trump administration more than was agreed to under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.

  • James Massola
The facility will be located near one of HMAS Stirling’s largest piers.

Next radioactive AUKUS hurdle approaching as green light sought for Perth nuclear facility

The “controlled industrial facility” is crucial to the next stage of the AUKUS agreement.

  • Hamish Hastie
Then Prince Charles, Now King Charles, with former prime Minister Scott Morrison, who was awarder in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours.

Morrison ‘saved lives’: Why former PM deserves highest honour in the land

It’s been branded by some as “the worst insult to all Australians”, but there is a case amid the controversy for Scott Morrison’s royal-endorsed gong.

  • Shane Wright

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