US president Donald Trump says a PGA-LIV Golf peace deal is proving harder to strike than an end to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. And there’s 12 stars about to be caught in the crossfire.
China says it would ‘never accept’ such ‘blackmail’ from America after Trump threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese goods to over 115 per cent unless Beijing halts its retaliatory measures.
After a three-day market meltdown, even financiers who have been vocal supporters of Donald Trump are warning the US may already be in recession as an ‘economic nuclear winter’ nears.
Opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie has refused to walk away from past comments in which he said women should not serve in combat roles in the Australian Defence Force.
Australia should not negotiate with Donald Trump. We are a sovereign nation not to be bullied and intimidated. We should just ignore him. No gratuitous comments. No supplicant phone calls.
The reality for politicians is that true leadership is forged in crisis. If the market turbulence continues, it has the potential to fundamentally reset the election contest.
Labor’s model now has an electoral trigger in common with John Howard’s Tampa election of 2001. Like Howard, fear is what Anthony Albanese is seeking to exploit.
US President Donald Trump’s trade war has not immediately affected the Australian federal budget, the latest update shows, but the economy could take a hit.
Anthony Albanese says Australia has been in contact with the White House, as he says the global chaos from the Trump tariffs is concerning for Aussie super.
In President Donald Trump’s perfect world, a 10 per cent tariff on imports would eventually become the norm, creating a global GST that lowers taxes on income. But the pain is very real now.