Former Home Affairs department secretary Mike Pezzullo hits back at Anthony Albanese’s peacekeeping stand, saying Australia should focus on its own security in the Pacific rather than send soldiers to Ukraine to defend against future Russian aggression.
US president takes a victory lap at agency that twice indicted him, vowing to avenge ‘wrongs and abuses’ and to expel enemies.
The lure of defensive investments is well timed for the many managers rolling out reams of new income-focused strategies. But some are riskier than others.
Mark Carney launched his term as Canada’s 24th prime minister with a wholehearted rejection of the US president’s repeated threats to annex his northern neighbour.
China urged an end to ‘illegal’ sanctions on Iran as it hosted diplomats for talks that Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Most observers believe Vladimir Putin would contemplate a ceasefire deal that gives him 20 per cent of Ukraine and an assurance on NATO. They do not know Russia very well.
Former Liberal Party prime minister Malcolm Turnbull may not acknowledge it but he shares certain personality characteristics with US Republican Party President Donald J. Trump.
Australia confronts an unprecedented task in alliance management under this autocratic US President. Whoever confronts it best may win the next election.
They thought his second term would be like the first, giving priority to economic growth and the stock market. He had other ideas.
If Moscow walks away, Donald Trump will have to decide whether to impose new sanctions
As Australia learns to navigate the Trumpian chaos, just remember: No one who has managed to dominate US politics for a decade is an idiot.
The move is being considered as the nation’s $150bn food and agriculture industry raises fears that wider tariffs will further damage the global economy.
Anthony Albanese has moved to shield the steel and aluminium industries from Donald Trump’s tariffs with $750m worth of subsidies.
Throughout the history of food trade, tariffs have followed. That’s why its worth listening to the cooler heads at the farm gate.
Stocks fell for a fourth consecutive week, a selloff in tech giants accelerated and volatility spiked as the global trade war worsened, but ‘markets aren’t yet in panic mode’.
As Australia shores up defences against a coming flood of steel imports, the — effectively — Whyalla-owning federal government faces a classic conflict of interest.
Australia would be highly exposed to an all-out global trade war; the US has become the second-biggest export market for our farmers, among the most efficient producers in the world.
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.
The chief executive of one of the country’s largest banks said Australia should remain calm and use the Trump tariffs to our advantage.
Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s long time friend, golf partner and, now, Middle East envoy, is at the centre of peace talks in Ukraine and Gaza. Here’s what to know about him.
The Palace makes a point of staying apolitical but nevertheless has found ways to express solidarity with the Commonwealth nation in the face of Donald Trump’s antics.
Ayatollah Khamenei has bristled after the US president, in a letter, threatened Iran with military action if it refused to negotiate a new deal.
A former top Canberra boffin has blasted a call from senator Jacqui Lambie to use Australia’s Pine Gap intelligence asset to hit back at Donald Trump.
The former senior minister has offered his colleagues some free advice after the US hit Australia with sweeping steel and aluminium tariffs.
Vladimir Putin said any pause in fighting at this point would be in Ukraine’s interests as Donald Trump reveals plans to talk to the Russian leader soon.
Australian stocks rise into the weekend. US futures soar as Trump government shutdown risks fade but trade tariff fights continue. Banks in the red. Gold miners soar as safe-haven commodity eyes new peak past $US3000 per ounce.
Anthony Albanese takes aim at Donald Trump’s ‘ideological reasons’, which he says motivated the US President’s refusal to grant an exemption for Australian steel and aluminium.
Trump is using economics to wage a culture war. Despite his transactional reputation – that he will Make America Wealthy Again – Trump is fighting on a different battlefield. Winning is measured by the recapture of cultural terrain.
Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on alcohol imported from the European Union as France responds: ‘We will not yield.’
The Albanese government will promise the nation’s farmers and food producers it will fight to protect them from Donald Trump’s next round of tariffs, as it offers the White House billions worth of co-operation on critical minerals.
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