EV demand plummets as car sales caught in ‘Tesla effect’
Motorists are ditching electric vehicles as Tesla and other big carmakers slash prices and used EV resale values also plummet, Car Group says.
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Musk demands judge’s impeachment over DOGE Treasury block
JD Vance and Elon Musk are leading criticism of the judge who restricted DOGE access to the Treasury’s payment system, a sign of the tensions ahead between the White House and courts.
Rudd dismisses ‘lies’ over USAID funding for think tank
Australian ambassador to the US, former prime minister Kevin Rudd, has categorically dismissed any claim that he or a think tank he formerly led had received funding from the US foreign aid agency.
Musk ‘doesn’t have any plans’ to buy TikTok
President Trump said he would be open to the world’s richest man buying the US operations of the Chinese-owned social media platform that is under threat of being banned in the country over national security concerns
US judge blocks DOGE from Treasury data
The order says anyone who has accessed data from the Treasury Department’s records since Donald Trump was inaugurated must ‘immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded.’
Trump freezes aid to South Africa, citing law to ‘seize’ land
The move is the latest in a blizzard of new orders escalating the US President’s campaign to crack down on US foreign aid.
Musk’s mass resignation hopes hit legal roadblock
Elon Musk’s mass redundancy scheme for federal workers has been put on hold by a judge hours before a deadline to quit.
Taking left lunacy out of USAID
Elon Musk may have a point when he claims USAID is ‘a viper’s nest of radical left Marxists who hate America’.
Judge blasts Musk, anti-Semitic surge
The NSW Chief Justice has called for perpetrators of anti-Semitism to be punished, as he accused tech billionaire Elon Musk of ‘trivialising’ the historical mistreatment of Jews.
Hope for a Trump win on Middle East situation
President Trump’s style may be more suited to war than peace. Perhaps he can win a better result in the Middle East conflict before he gets into too much trouble from his tariff policies?
Neo-Nazi social media accounts shut down after fundraising boasts
Elon Musk’s X has suspended a raft of accounts associated with neo-Nazis from Australia’s National Socialist Network after the group boasted they had raised $13,000 to replace equipment ‘stolen’ by police.
Warning to Aussies on ‘scary’ Trump trend
Australia has been warned about tech barons growing their influence in our politics after Donald Trump let Elon Musk into the White House.
Musk tightens his grip on wheels of power
The speed and scope of Elon Musk’s work has been nothing short of stunning. In the three weeks, the world’s richest man has created an alternative power structure.
What’s all the fuss? Trump, Musk are just walking the talk
Memo to panicking Wall Street: what on earth did you expect to happen when Donald Trump took control with Elon Musk? The pair are doing exactly what they promised to do.
‘Coup’: Trump administration closes USAID headquarters
The closure, which comes after moves by Elon Musk’s DOGE to exert control over the foreign-aid organisation, raise questions about whether he’ll follow a similar blueprint to close other agencies.
Price to follow Thatcher playbook
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she will follow the principles of Margaret Thatcher in helping the Coalition give ‘power back to the people by implementing small government’.
Not even Musk can escape the great democracy of death
For all his trillions and SpaceX toys under development, Elon cannot escape the gravitational pull of mortality or the feeling of dread that fills the soul when contemplating the cold mechanics of the universe.
How Musk is making Tesla investors rich
Elon Musk says ‘there is a path for Tesla to becoming the most valuable company in the world’ as it ramps up production on self-driving cars and humanoid robots.
Trump asks SpaceX to ‘go get’ stranded US astronauts
US President Donald Trump said Elon Musk’s company will ‘soon’ begin a mission to repatriate the two astronauts who have been stranded for months on the International Space Station.
Voters want strong leadership
Australian voters want strong leadership and substance.
Ley’s bizarre Aus Day claim about Elon Musk
Peter Dutton’s second-in-command has made a curious comparison during an Australia Day speech in her electorate.
Coalition frontbench reshuffle unveiled ahead of election
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price will take on an extra role as ‘government efficiency’ spokeswoman – evoking Elon Musk’s role under the US Trump administration.
Winners and losers: what Trump has done so far
It’s been a good week for Elon Musk, TikTok and rioters, less so for migrants, civil servants and Mexico.
Wall St banks gear to sell billions of dollars of X loans
The banks have waited – and waited – for the window to sell without huge losses as platform owner Elon Musk tells staff that X is ‘barely breaking even’.
A sting in the tail
They’re the bane of summer days at the beach. But who knew bluebottles were so beautiful, and so interesting?
Inside the Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy DOGE divorce
Biotech-company founder departs DOGE after his goal of trimming regulations was overtaken by Musk’s priority of cutting spending.
Is Cybertruck maker Tesla losing its buzz?
Tesla’s Cybertruck has become America’s fifth most popular electric vehicle but overall 2024 was a disappointing year for the Elon Musk-helmed company.
Elon Musk downplays Donald Trump-backed AI mega project
World’s richest man casts doubt on the funding for the much-heralded $US500bn Stargate project in a continuing spat with the ChatGPT chief executive.
‘Make a deal’: Trump threatens Putin with sanctions, tariffs over Ukraine war
Donald Trump says unless Moscow moves to end the war with Ukraine he’ll impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia; Elon Musk pours cold water on the Stargate AI project.
What was behind Musk’s salute – Roman respect or Nazi hatred?
At a post-inauguration rally, Elon Musk twice made a militaristic gesture, extending his arm with his palm face down, which led to a storm of fury as onlookers compared it to the Nazi salute.
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