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Is Albo destined to be a one-term PM?

What is the legacy of the first (and perhaps only) term of the Albanese government? The loss of the Voice seems to have frozen his appetite for reform.

  • George Brandis

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Penny Wong joined foreign ministers from the Quad to represent Australia at President Trump’s inauguration.

Penny Wong’s golden ticket to the Trump show signals Australia’s strength

Penny Wong and Donald Trump hardly sound like a match made in political heaven, but there was Australia’s foreign minister in prime position.

  • Matthew Knott
Donald Trump at a rally in November with Marco Rubio, who has been nominated as secretary of state.

Trump’s cabinet pick says AUKUS a ‘blueprint’ for other US pacts

Secretary of state-in-waiting Marco Rubio has given the strongest indication yet of what Donald Trump will do with the submarine deal.

  • Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
Pit-stop: a US nuclear-powered submarine docks at Rockingham, Western Australia in March last year. The US may not be able to make more than 1.3 such subs a year.

For America, AUKUS is the vehicle to ‘fortify’ Australia against China

Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.

  • Michael Koziol
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel
The cost of high speed trains.

Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail

Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.

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Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would always look at ways to strengthen Medicare.

Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history

Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.

The Trumps and the Morrisons

Scott Morrison spends New Year’s Eve with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

The former Australian prime minister and his wife partied their way into 2025 at the president-elect’s Florida estate.

  • James Massola
Kevin Rudd (right), Ambassador of Australia to the United States, hosting members of the US Congress at the annual Friends of Australia Caucus Dinner in Washington DC. Credit: Kevin Rudd/X

Meet Australia’s best friend in Washington... no, not Kevin Rudd

A man known as “Two Sub Joe” has become Canberra’s can-do contact with Washington’s powerbrokers.

  • Farrah Tomazin
Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd and US President-elect Donald Trump.

Rudd operates as ‘foreign minister’ in DC: Top Biden adviser

US President Joe Biden’s top adviser on Asia has strongly backed Kevin Rudd, after the former PM made his first public comments since Donald Trump’s election victory.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher

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