Why Trump is the world’s ‘great decoloniser’
In two bold moves, he has threatened to end Danish control of Greenland and to defund the colonising mission of a large US government agency. Is the anti-Trump left not entertained?
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Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance
The US President called the access ‘a courtesy provided to former presidents’ in a move that follows the precedent set by Biden who had also blocked Trump.
‘Anti-Christian bias’ to be tackled by new taskforce
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a taskforce to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ in government.
Five takeaways from the Trump-Netanyahu press conference
From taking over Gaza to belittling Joe Biden: the big talking points as Donald Trump hosts his first world leader of his second term.
Trump puts Israel on top shelf
The US support for Israel’s ‘sovereign right’ to ban its operations shows the UNRWA still has a long way to go before it will overcome the damage done to it by its own Hamas terrorist employees.
Why these three badly flawed failed leaders are set to haunt our PM
The failures of Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern – three of the very worst democratic leaders in the world in the past decade – carries lessons for Anthony Albanese.
On Covid, CIA finally makes the only logical call
The agency’s assessment that Covid likely originated in a lab won’t surprise anyone who has closely followed this topic. Joe Biden’s pre-emptive pardon for Anthony Fauci should enrage every family who lost a loved one to Covid-19.
What one activist court can do, another can undo
Labor and Anthony Albanese have zero interest in depoliticising our legal system. The task of untethering politics from the law must be added to Peter Dutton’s to-do list.
History unlikely to forgive Biden’s farewell pardons
Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons will not only undermine Americans’ already battered confidence in their system of government; they will legitimise Donald Trump’s attacks on the federal administration and enforcement of justice.
Biden’s pardons have larger implications
Are former president Joe Biden’s pardons – some of which cover conduct dating back to 2014 and include all future transgressions – a licence for the recipients to be criminal forever?
‘Storms ahead’: Trump reveals what Biden wrote in farewell letter
The new president described his predecessor’s missive as ‘very nice’.
Biden trashes what’s left of legacy
With good reason, the outgoing US president’s parting shot at democratic norms has been derided as the ‘Hunter Biden pardon on steroids’.
While Trump aims for Mars, moon looms large in space race
Space is the final frontier as the arch-rivalry between the US and China heats up, with the ‘Trumponauts’ pitted against Beijing’s lunar solar power plans and ‘kinetic kill vehicles’
Trump’s new climate paradigm: we are hostage to bigger global events
With the US out of the Paris Agreement and cancelling Joe Biden’s climate ‘extremism’ measures across the board, Australia must take a cold, hard look at where our best interests lie.
Powerful, vengeful inauguration speech seals Biden’s final humiliation
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sat glumly, just metres away, as Donald Trump opened his second term by rounding on his political enemies and declaring: “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Jan 6 rioters, Paris Climate Accord, Tiktok focus of executive orders
Donald Trump has signed more than 20 executive orders, including pardoning 1500 January 6 rioters and giving TikTok more time to work out a deal on the US ban.
Biden issues last-minute pardons to Fauci, others
Trump vowed to press the Justice Department to prosecute people he considered to be part of a political opposition.
Trump outlines his blueprint to make America ‘greater than ever’
Donald Trump has used a victory rally in Washington to draw a line under the Biden administration, vowing to unpick its legacy and pursue the biggest border crackdown in US history.
Swearing in a new era of Trump
There is a sense of confidence and momentum about Donald Trump that he lacked in 2017, and he must use it wisely to ensure there is no return to the chaos that was the hallmark of his previous White House term.
Biden says equal rights amendment is ‘law of the land’
The announcement came just days before the US president is set to surrender power to Donald Trump, and is certain to face legal challenges and fierce objections from Republicans.
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