Donald Trump

Trump shows strong hand, but we hold AUKUS ace

The US President’s speech to congress played to his strengths, but his announcement to ‘resurrect shipbuilding’ may present Australia with a golden opportunity.

Peter Jennings

‘America’s greatest era’World

US President Donald Trump speaks during 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 Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump doubles down on radical change agenda

Donald Trump’s address to congress set out the decisive break with history posed by his administration and its charting of a bold new direction for the country in global, economic and cultural terms.

Joe Kelly

EXCHANGEMarkets

US Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) applaud as US President Donald Trump speaks during 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 Win McNamee / POOL / AFP)

Markets on edge as Trump dubs tariffs pain ‘a little disturbance’

US President Donald Trump is downplaying the fallout from his tariffs, suggesting he will push on with his aggressive trade policy. This isn’t good news for markets.

David Rogers

GolfNewsWire

US golfer, Brooks Koepka attends a press conference ahead of the 44th Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome on September 27, 2023. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

LIV star claim as golf war nears end

While the golf world inches closer to LIV stars possibly returning to the PGA Tour, one major champion has reportedly made his plans clear.

updatedWorld

A Palestinian family (C-L) eat an iftar meal, the breaking of the fast, in their destroyed house amid the rubble of buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2025, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. UN chief Antonio Guterres said he strongly endorsed an Egyptian plan put to Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo on March 4 for Gaza's reconstruction without displacement of its Palestinian inhabitants. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)

White House rejects Arab leaders’ post-war Gaza plan

The White House said the Arab plan for Gaza ‘doesn’t address reality’ and reaffirmed its commitment to Donald Trump’s plan to take over the enclave and relocate all of its two million residents.

AFP

Trump’s Congress addressThe World

‘This will be our great era’: Trump celebrates victories, promises more

Donald Trump has celebrated his victories in the economy, border controls and health reforms and vowed to end the war in Ukraine but did not outline his plan on bringing peace between Moscow and Kyiv | WATCH

Joe Kelly and Noah Yim

Trump’s Trade WarWorld

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 03, 2025 shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Warsaw on January 28, 2025 and US President Donald Trump in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump said he had spoken on February 3, 2025 to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the punishing tariffs he has levied on Canada, adding that they would talk again later in the day. (Photo by Sergei GAPON and ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Trump ‘may meet Mexico, Canada in middle’ over tariffs: Lutnick

Donald Trump could roll back some of the tariffs he imposed on Canada and Mexico.

Joe Kelly

NewsWire

US President Donald Trump (R) looks on as Vice President JD Vance speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Divers pulled bodies from the icy waters of Washington's Potomac river Thursday after a US military helicopter collided midair with a passenger plane carrying 64 people, with officials saying there were likely no survivors. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Damage control after ‘knob’ comment

Labor has gone into damage control after Western Australia’s premier called Donald Trump’s number two a ‘knob’.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

COMMENTARYBusiness

President Donald Trump shakes hands with C.C. Wei, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 3, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Be warned, this is no ordinary trade war

The trade war repercussions will shape the world in ways we never anticipated when Donald Trump returned as US President. Now, terbium and other rare earths have become potential trade weapons.

Robert Gottliebsen

Trump 100 daysThe Wall Street Journal

US President Donald Trump applauds C.C. Wei, Chairman and CEO of TSMC, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025. Trump said chip-making giant TSMC will invest "at least" $100 billion in the United States to build "state of the art" chip manufacturing facilities. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Ukraine war, inflation, immigration: what to watch for in Trump’s address to Congress

Donald Trump is expected to detail a plan to end the war in Ukraine and lay out steps to fight inflation in his address to Congress today as Democrats bring guests hit by his tariffs.

Tarini Parti

DevelopingWorld

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 28, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. US President Donald Trump erupted at Volodymyr Zelensky on February 28, 2025, angrily sending the Ukrainian leader out of the White House after an extraordinary Oval Office meltdown because he was "not ready" for peace with Russia. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Oval Office row ‘regrettable’: Zelensky wants to ‘make things right’ for peace

The Ukrainian President has reassured the US he wants peace and is ready to sign a minerals deal with Washington, which reportedly could happen as early as today.

Joe Kelly and Jacquelin Magnay

commentaryCommentary

$Trump has given the autocratic powers – Russia and China – what they most craved: a strategic fracture between America and Europe.$

Trump’s strongman tactics serve to diminish America

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.

Paul Kelly

LettersLetters

Starmer shows how to lead the free world on peace deal

In contrast to Donald Trump’s inelegant behaviour, the British Prime Minister has demonstrated impressive leadership qualities by inviting European heads of state to a discussion on Ukraine.

EditorialEditorials

Post-war order reaches a low ebb

Donald Trump’s blatant favouring of Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical regime could put countless Ukrainian lives at risk, depending on how long the ban extends.

Editorial

commentaryWorld

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (L) takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump gambles US economy on new trade war

Donald Trump has fired the opening shot of a new trade war by imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, a major gamble which risks a voter backlash against his America First agenda.

Joe Kelly

Business Breaking News

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists about TikTok as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Picture: NewsWire / Jim WATSON / POOL / AFP

ASX dives on latest Trump development

The ASX 200 followed the US markets trading deep in the red on the back of the latest announcement by President Donald Trump on trade tariffs.

Cameron Micallef

Ukraine warThe Times

UNSPECIFIED, UKRAINE - AUGUST 4: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi stands in front of the first General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons received by Ukraine as he congratulates Ukrainian military on the Day of Ukrainian Air Force on August 4, 2024 in Unspecified, Ukraine. At the event for the Day of Ukrainian Air Force with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the first General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons received by Ukraine were demonstrated. (Photo by Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

What does Trump’s pause on aid mean for Ukraine?

US President Donald Trump’s decision puts in jeopardy Kyiv’s defence against the Russian invasion.

Alistair Dawber

‘coalition of the willing’Politics

Anthony Albanese has sided with Ukraine and not Donald Trump over the President's latest international scandal.

US halts arms as Albanese gets willing

Anthony Albanese has flagged the potential deployment of Australian troops to Ukraine in a peacekeeping force, as Donald Trump escalated his row with the war-torn nation’s President.

Ben Packham

AnalysisCommentary

President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

‘Life-and-death’ Trump aid halt

The US President’s knee-jerk decision could prove to be one of the most dangerous gambles ever seen in international diplomacy, and have real consequences across the globe.

Cameron Stewart

DevelopingWorld

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. Zelensky and Trump openly clashed in the White House on February 28 at a meeting where they were due to sign a deal on sharing Ukraine's mineral riches and discuss a peace deal with Russia. "You're not acting at all thankful. It's not a nice thing," Trump said. "Itâs going to be very hard to do business like this," he added. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump ‘orders indefinite pause in military aid to Ukraine’

In an order that will take immediate effect, Donald Trump paused all military aid to Ukraine, including weapons already in transit until Volodymr Zelensky ‘demonstrates a good faith commitment to peace’.

Joe Kelly

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