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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They came in their thousands, lining the roads, the bridges, the intersections, just to be there when the coffins of Shiri and her children Kfir and Ariel passed by for the last time.
The outlines of a potential peace deal in Ukraine are fast taking shape, but is Vladimir Putin playing with Donald Trump?
It was the final indignity for the Bibas family; for a mother not to come home with her children, even in death.
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