AUKUS
Rudd operates as ‘foreign minister’ in DC: Top Biden adviser
US President Joe Biden’s top adviser on Asia has strongly backed Kevin Rudd, after the former PM made his first public comments since Donald Trump’s election victory.
- by Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
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‘Dangerous’: Caroline Kennedy blasts cousin RFK Jr’s vaccine views
The departing US ambassador said: “I grew up with him, so I’ve known all this for a long time; others are just getting to know him.”
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
Kevin Rudd
Please don’t send Kevin Rudd home, Mr Trump. He’s our favourite export
Donald Trump, Your Elective Majesty, you have much in common with our man in Washington. You just need to consider the “detailed programmatic specificity”.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Opinion
Foreign relations
Murdoch’s Ruddicide will fail. Here’s why Trump will warm to our Kevin
News Corp wants Kevin Rudd removed from his Washington post, but the envoy has already built a network within the Trump 2.0 White House.
- by Peter Hartcher
Australia backstabs France over submarines, you couldn’t script it. But they did
Season 2 of Netflix’s The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as the US ambassador to the UK – and Australia as a back-stabbing support act.
- by Karl Quinn
NZ’s anti-woke warrior Winston Peters is the Trump of the south
Once described as like “the drunk uncle at the wedding”, NZ’s deputy prime minister has proved the wiliest political survivor in the Pacific.
- by Matthew Knott
Keating says Australians ‘utterly at odds’ with Labor on US-China
The former prime minister leapt upon poll results showing most Australians want to avoid picking sides in any conflict between the United States and China.
- by Matthew Knott
Opinion
US Votes 2024
When Trump gets nasty, Albanese cannot afford to play nice
Trump’s motto is America First, which means Australia will be put in its place. Albanese said of Trump in 2017: “He scares the shit out of me.”
- by David Crowe
Reconsider AUKUS, say former Labor foreign ministers
The government is insisting Kevin Rudd will stay on as Australia’s ambassador to Washington despite his past criticism of Donald Trump.
- by David Crowe
Re-elected Trump would set up possible clash with Australia on tariffs
Political leaders say they can work with either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, but experts warn a Trump White House could impose costly tariffs on major imports.
- by David Crowe
Caroline Kennedy calls for ‘AUKUS visa’ as Canberra braces for election result
As video emerged of Anthony Albanese in 2017 saying Donald Trump “scares the s--t out of me”, deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley accused Labor of rooting for a Kamala Harris victory.
- by Matthew Knott
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