Chinese warships in show of force off coast of Sydney
A Chinese naval task group was sailing just 150 nautical miles off Sydney on Wednesday in an unprecedented projection of power.
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Dutton can win the election, says the UK’s ‘friendlier Trump’
Nigel Farage, the insurgent prince of British politics, hopes Peter Dutton will win the forthcoming Australian election … but if the Coalition want to achieve a majority, he has one piece of advice.
The trillion-dollar brake on rate cuts
The current level of federal spending is now running higher than the peak of the Covid pandemic which triggered record health spending and the introduction of JobKeeper.
Palmer to copy the Trump playbook
Billionaire Clive Palmer has declared his new political party will be inspired by Donald Trump’s policies on government waste, trade and the ‘gender agenda’.
PNG defence pact with Canberra to frustrate Beijing
Australia and Papua New Guinea will expand military co-operation under a new bilateral defence treaty, frustrating Beijing’s ambitions to secure a strategic foothold to Australia’s north.
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Elite’s long march scuttled by hubris and overreach
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.
The rapid rehab of Vladimir Putin
The Russian marauder has become an ostensible peacemaker in a month despite waging the biggest land war in Europe since Hitler.
End the corporate rent-seeking? Let’s get back to first principles
The ASX Corporate Governance Council has dealt itself out of the governance debate. Controlled by pseudo-culture warriors, rent-seekers and activists, it’s become a de facto legislator and regulator.
Trump’s Ukraine betrayal has nothing to do with realpolitik
We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those with World War II. Yet Trump’s overture to Putin sounds like a terrifying echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Trump’s real partner in peace is Moscow – not Kyiv
Donald Trump has signalled his preference to potentially remove Volodymyr Zelensky from power entirely so he can strike a deal to carve up Ukraine with Putin in the absence of objections.
‘Failed to invest back’: Minister unloads on GFG’s $800m offshore earnings
Sanjeev Gupta’s companies have sent almost $800m in Australian earnings offshore for various purposes, South Australia’s Energy and Mining Minister Tom Koutsantonis says.
Trad’s job pick secret finally revealed
Former Labor deputy premier Jackie Trad ‘inappropriately interfered’ with a government selection process to hand-pick her own under-treasurer, a secret report by Queensland’s corruption watchdog has found.
Crop owners to criminals at stroke of a pen
Farmers in far west NSW say they have been branded criminals for harvesting their crop in the same way it’s been done for more than a century.
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Konstantin Kisin’s manifesto for the future of our civilisation
Let’s stop listening to the people who want us to fail. Let’s ignore the counsel of our enemies. Our culture is special … we have built the most free and prosperous societies in the history of humanity and we’re going to keep them that way | WATCH
Man charged over arson attack on Jewish leader’s former home
Police charged 37-year-old Leon Sofilas with the attack that destroyed two cars last month outside the former home of Alex Ryvchin in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
‘We need Whyalla’: PM’s $2.4bn boost for green steel transformation
Anthony Albanese and South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas have unveiled a $2.4bn package to save Whyalla Steelworks, with funding for major mill upgrades, keeping the plant operational while in administration, and to pay creditors of Sanjeev Gupta’s firm.
Tycoon’s son boasted of ‘super’ car before fatal crash
Obstetrician Rhys Bellinge was recorded calling other drivers cowards while lauding his Jaguar’s power as he hooned through Perth’s suburbs in the weeks before an accident that claimed the life of a 24-year-old woman.
New markets for fresh produce ease trade uncertainty
Amid a year of trade uncertainty and a war between supermarkets and farmers, Australia’s fruit and vegetable exports have hit a record.
Packer: ‘nurse footage beyond imagination’ | WATCH
James Packer says footage of two Sydney nurses threatening to kill Israeli patients is ‘beyond imagination’.
Vital heart test’s funding in doubt
For six years the Medicare Heart Health Check has been the only diagnostic test for heart disease risk; by June it will run out of funding without government intervention.
Inside crazy brave secret plot to oust Gupta
The SA premier has been plotting to execute Sanjeev Gupta for several months. At lunchtime Wednesday Peter Malinauskas blew GFG up in an extraordinary intervention that nationalises the Whyalla steelworks.
Lights are flashing red across the board for Burgess
As if the world wasn’t bleak enough already. According to the nation’s intelligence chief, it is only going to get worse. There is no longer a single threat that stands out on the priority list.
ASIO reveals state-sponsored murder plots
ASIO chief Mike Burgess has issued a pre-election warning, revealing foreign states have plotted to kill Australian-based critics and steal defence secrets and anti-Semitic attacks will continue.
‘Don’t use rates cut as cover to buy votes’
The Reserve Bank’s quarter-point interest rate cut must not be a green light for a pre-election cash splash, economists have warned.
Workers earning more, more slowly
Pay packets grew at their slowest rate in almost three years in the December quarter, supporting the Reserve Bank’s reasoning to finally cut the cash rate on Tuesday.
Disability sector to flex poll muscles
The nation’s peak disability body is launching a campaign in marginal seats ahead of the election demanding the next prime minister reverse Anthony Albanese’s decision to absorb the NDIS portfolio into social services.
Trump threat on medicine sales
Australia’s pharmaceutical sector is preparing for Donald Trump’s latest round of flagged tariffs to hit at least $1.9bn worth of exports.
Sydney train strikes suspended until July
Sydney rail commuters have had a win after the Fair Work Commission handed down its decision in the dispute between the rail unions and NSW government.
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