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Cameron StewartChief International Correspondent

Cameron Stewart is the Chief International Correspondent at The Australian, combining investigative reporting on foreign affairs, defence and national security with feature writing for the Weekend Australian Magazine. He was previously the paper’s Washington Correspondent covering North America from 2017 until early 2021. He was also the New York correspondent during the late 1990s. Cameron is a former winner of the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year.

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by golf legend Tiger Woods, speaks during a reception honoring Black History Month in the East Room of the White House on February 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Black History Month celebration comes as Trump has signed a series of executive orders ending federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and cutting funding to schools and Universities that do not cut DEI programs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Even Houdini could not have escaped these tariffs

The political fight over whether or not this outcome was a diplomatic failure by Australia ignores the fact that Trump was hell bent this time around on rejecting all pleas for exemptions.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with the governor of Arkhangelsk region Alexander Tsybulsky during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Decision time for Vlad the Invader

The world is about to see into the dark soul of Vladimir Putin to learn whether Russia’s dictator is really interested in peace.

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull aboard the USS Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River in New York, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Turnbull rewrites history as the brave Trump-tamer

Malcolm Turnbull won a tariffs exemption as PM, but let’s not pretend it was because he was the brave, outspoken warrior that he would now like everyone to think.

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WASHINGTON DC.... US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hold a joint press conference in the East room at the White House in Washington DC. . Pic Nathan Edwards

Miracle needed on tariffs after Trump’s Turnbull scolding

The Albanese government’s chances of an exception were already sliding fast before the Trump-Turnbull dust-up. The former PM’s comments won’t help.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 6, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton joined representatives from The Salvation Army and Kmart for the launch of the 37th Annual Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal in the members hall at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Defence spending boost forced by new world disorder

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will be forced by seismic world events and by Donald Trump to place Australia on a fast-track to sharply increased defence spending.

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Richard Marles says Labor is open to increasing defence spending.

Marles targets defence spending as US ratchets up the pressure

Defence Minister Richard Marles has left the door open to lifting defence spend after a key Trump administration appointee called for a massive rise in Australia’s military spending.

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President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

‘Life-and-death’ Trump aid halt

The US President’s knee-jerk decision could prove to be one of the most dangerous gambles ever seen in international diplomacy, and have real consequences across the globe.

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Putin is the clear winner in the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office fiasco

While the ramifications of this stunning bust-up between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are still unfolding, the immediate outcomes are all bad for the West and for Australia.

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Trump has raised doubts about the future of AUKUS.

Trump’s AUKUS embarrassment shows insignificance of deal to the President

Donald Trump’s inability to recognise the acronym AUKUS when asked about it in the Oval Office tell us a few home truths about where this deal – which is central to Australia’s defence planning – ranks in the President’s head.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 26, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits Urgent Care Clinic at the Goonawarra Medical Centre in Sunbury. Picture: NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

At times like this, PM can’t dither on defence

The Chinese live-fire controversy and events in Europe are a reminder of why the government should scrap its go-slow increase in defence spending.

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