Joe Kelly

Joe KellyNational Affairs editor

Joe Kelly is the National Affairs Editor. He joined The Australian in 2008 and since 2010 has worked in the parliamentary press gallery, most recently as Canberra Bureau chief.

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COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 12: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures while walking onstage for a campaign rally on October 12, 2024 in Coachella, California. With 24 days to go until election day, former President Donald Trump is detouring from swing states to hold the rally in Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris' home state. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Death row for migrant murderers, says Trump

Donald Trump has escalated his migrant crackdown, amid growing fears among Democrats that Kamala Harris is losing momentum.

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US electionUS Politics

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 21, 2017, (L-R) George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton attend the Hurricane Relief concert in College Station, Texas. - Obama, Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if it will help promote public confidence. Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM radio, said he would be inoculated if top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci signs off on a Covid-19 vaccine. Freddy Ford, Bush's chief of staff, told CNN the former president also wanted to help promote vaccination. Angel Urena, Clinton's press secretary, told CNN the former president would also be willing to take a vaccine in public on television. (Photo by JIM CHAPIN / AFP)

Obama and Clinton mobilise support for Harris

Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will hit the campaign trial in coming weeks, targeting key battleground states in a bid to energise the party’s base and edge out Donald Trump.

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Israel at warWorld

09-10-2024 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers hold a phone call with US President Joe Biden on October 9, 2024. (Prime Minister's Office)

Biden vows ‘ironclad’ US support on security

The US President and Israeli Prime Minister have spoken for the first time since the Israeli incursion into Lebanon.

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commentaryUS Politics

Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be increasingly doing things his own way, with the Israeli leader taking key decisions without informing Washington and not seeking US counsel.

Biden’s influence over Israel tested ahead of US election

The unfolding Middle East war looms as a key factor in the US election contest, with the Jewish state listening ‘less and less to America’, as Donald Trump urges Israel to hit Iran’s nuclear sites.

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LIVE: Israel at warWorld

Red Crescent says 28 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school

The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli air strike on a Gaza school killed at least 28 people on Thursday, while the Israeli military reported it struck a Hamas command centre.

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friendly interviewsUS Politics

US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is pictured in studio at ABC during a break during the recording of the show "The View" in New York on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Harris aids ‘sandwich’ generation, blasts Trump/Putin ties

Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of prioritising Vladimir Putin over US citizens dying of Covid but slipped up over her differences with Joe Biden in a media blitz of friendly interviews.

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exclusivePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 5, 2023: Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt and Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Jewish leaders: put Greens last on ballot

Two of the nation’s leading Jewish groups have sought public commitments from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton for the major parties to preference each other over the Greens at the next election.

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‘get smart about me’US Politics

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, prays at Ohel Chabad Lubavitch on October 07, 2024 in New York City. Trump commemorated the one-year anniversary of October 7th by visiting to Ohel Chabad Lubavitch, the final resting place of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson the Rebbe, with the family of Edan Alexander, who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th, in attendance. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing more than 1,200 people and taking Israeli soldiers and civilians hostage. To date, there are over 90 people still being held hostage by Hamas. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump ‘should get 100 per cent of Jewish vote’

On the anniversary of the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas, Donald Trump has urged all Jews to back him in November, arguing he’s ‘done more than any other president’ for Israel.

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Israel at WarWorld

US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Israel as he holds an interagency briefing on the Hurricane Helene response and recovery efforts in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Biden, Harris condemn anti-Semitism and recognise ‘indomitable’ Israeli spirit

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have marked the one year anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel as a day of ‘mourning’ and endorsed the right of the Jewish state to defend itself.

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Deepening divisionsPolitics

Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Iranian ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Repugnant diplomacy on Iranian envoy and Israel’s response

Labor is refusing to expel Iran’s top diplomat in Australia despite the ambassador praising Hassan Nasrallah’s ‘martyrdom’, as Penny Wong fails to say which of Israel’s military actions should be considered acceptable self-defence.

Rosie Lewis, Joe Kelly, Mohammad Alfares and Sarah Ison

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