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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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Trump’s Trade WarWorld

President Donald Trump, flanked by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, right, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump to grant a reprieve from full reciprocal tariffs

Australian hopes for a trade reprieve from the US have been buoyed after Donald Trump said he ‘may give a lot of countries breaks’ from the imposition of full reciprocal tariffs from April 2.

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WORLD COMMENTARYWorld

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a news conference at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on March 23, 2025 after asking the Governor General to dissolve Parliament thereby triggering snap elections on April 28. Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called early elections for April 28, pledging to defeat Donald Trump's drive to annex the United States's huge northern neighbor. Carney, a former central banker, was chosen by Canada's centrist Liberal Party to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister, but he has never faced the country's broader electorate. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP)

Election looms as a referendum on resisting MAGA

Coalition and ALP strategists will be watching how Donald Trump influences the Canadian election, called for April 28 – shortly before Australians go to the polls.

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Trump’s Trade WarWorld

US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (R) speak before departing the White House on his way to his South Florida home in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on March 14, 2025. Trump is spending the weekend at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Tech giants sound alarm on Australia’s social media regulation

Elon Musk and other US tech giants are sounding the alarm on Australia’s regulation of digital platforms, warning the Trump administration they face discriminatory trade barriers.

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mass deportationsWorld

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

‘Partisan activists’: White House dials up attack on judiciary

The White House vowed to continue mass deportations, claiming that ‘activist judges’ were usurping the President’s authority after Donald Trump was reprimanded by the US Chief Justice.

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Trump-Putin phone callWorld

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on March 18, 2025 shows, L-R, Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Strelna, outside St. Petersburg, on December 27, 2021 and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. Trump and Putin spoke by phone on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, with the White House saying the talks on securing a ceasefire in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine were

Putin: military aid and intelligence to Ukraine must end

Vladimir Putin agrees to halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure but says his ‘key condition’ for peace is that foreign military aid and intelligence to Ukraine must stop. However, Donald Trump claims ‘we didn’t talk about aid at all’.

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DevelopingWorld

US President Donald Trump greets Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as Trump departs after giving an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

US Chief Justice issues rare public rebuke of Trump

Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Roberts has sensationally pushed back against Donald Trump after the US President called for the top federal judge in Washington to be impeached.

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commentaryWorld

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025. Trump was appointed chairman of the Kennedy Center on February 12, 2025, as a new board of trustees loyal to the US president brought his aggressive rightwing, anti-

Trump takes up fight to expand presidential power

Donald Trump has embarked on the political fight he always wanted by challenging the power of the judiciary over his plans to deport foreign gang members.

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constitutional rowWorld

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: The U.S. Supreme Court is shown March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration defied a federal judge's court order this past weekend in a case related to the deportation of more than 200 alleged Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

‘We don’t care’: Judiciary, White House in major row over deportations

In a major clash between the executive and judicial branches, a district judge has argued the Trump administration defied a court order to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador.

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trade warWorld

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2025 as, seated from L to R, Vice Presient JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and standing, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellog (R) and NATO ambassador nominee Matthew Whitaker (C) look on. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Carney, Trump to speak as Canada vows ‘reset’ in relationship

Canadian officials have urged Donald Trump to engage with the incoming PM ‘in a different way’ after talks with the US Commerce Secretary ‘lowered the temperature’ of the trade war.

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COMMENTARYWorld

Why Albanese was right not to visit Trump

Australia was never going to win an exemption from Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs. Anthony Albanese avoided humiliation by opting not to visit Washington.

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