Choice of two evils: beware the looming mediocre contest
Election 2025 looms as one of the most dangerous elections for many decades, as neither leader appears up to the challenge of the new strategic realities faced by Australia.
Election 2025 looms as one of the most dangerous elections for many decades, as neither leader appears up to the challenge of the new strategic realities faced by Australia.
Donald Trump brings a reality-TV culture and real estate mentality to his rewriting of history and promotion of lies from the President’s office.
Trump accused Zelensky of talking the US into a war that couldn’t be won. He blamed him for starting the war. These claims are not just untrue. They are lies and big lies.
Rebuilding Western civilisation in an age of disruption and disunity was the main focus at the 2025 ARC meeting in London.
The American progressive movement hates Trump yet this movement triggered the pro-Trump rebellion. The scale of their hubris testifies to a movement with self-destructive instincts but in denial of its flaws.
Donald Trump’s administration has sent a decisive message that will shake the world. Signs of a peace deal in Ukraine are emerging along with evidence that the President will scale back the US global alliance system and leave Europe to deter Vladimir Putin.
Every sign is that Albanese is managing Trump as a professional. Their discussion revealed a government that has been diligent in preparing its case on tariffs.
Donald Trump has shown the gulf between his position and Anthony Albanese’s, wedging Labor on Palestine. But his plan to ‘own’ Gaza won’t work.
Donald Trump sees higher tariffs as a core economic goal and as a lever to extract concessions from other nations. Both aspirations are flawed.
His muscular, nationalistic mission to ‘make America great again’ will excite and horrify many Australians and throw an unpredictable factor into our electoral equation.
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