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Donald Trump has spent the first weeks of his second term as US president in a kind of extended road rage.

We need to become agile to avoid Trump’s road rage

Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.

  • Tony Wright

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White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro (centre).

Trump tariff warrior says Australian ‘China-owned’ companies are flooding US market. It’s not true

A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters, making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.

  • David Crowe and Michael Koziol
Then prime minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump had a good rapport as “surprise” election winners.

What did Australia promise? Inside the room where Trump and Morrison talked tariffs

Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.

  • David Crowe and Michael Koziol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.

Albanese’s formulas aren’t enough to handle a president like Trump

Being a close ally of the US does not mean we have to be so slavish that we abandon independent thinking.

  • Matthew Knott
Trump wants “the best possible outcome” for the Middle East, Dutton says.

Dutton praises Trump as a ‘big thinker’ who wants peace, after president’s Gaza plan

Peter Dutton has praised Donald Trump for being willing to try a new approach to resolve the conflict, avoiding criticism of a plan that has shocked the region.

  • Olivia Ireland and Josefine Ganko
Trump greets Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House.

‘We will own it’: Trump wants the US to take over Gaza and redevelop it

The comments, made as he met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, came after Trump earlier suggested displaced Palestinians be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

  • Michael Koziol
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Donald Trump signs executive order as Rupert Murdoch looks on in White House.

Rupert Murdoch in Oval Office as Trump shakes up trade ties with Mexico, Canada

The US president paused tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and praised the “legendary” media mogul even as he lashed Murdoch’s newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump throws pens used to sign executive orders.

What are tariffs and how do they work?

Get the lowdown on who pays for them, what they protect and how countries may retaliate.

  • Paul Wiseman

Tropic thunder: Why Trump wants the Panama Canal back

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

  • Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
Paule Ignatio, consul-general of France, in Melbourne.

‘Proof of love’: After 24 years, a French diplomat is back in Melbourne

France is flying the flag for closer bilateral relations with newly appointed French consul-general Paule Ignatio. 

  • Cara Waters

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