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President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump is running America the way America ran Iraq

The first days of the second Trump term are reminiscent of the disastrous administration George W. Bush put in place after invading Iraq.

  • Michelle Goldberg

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Donald Trump’s official presidential portrait.

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different, for all the wrong reasons.

  • Bill Wyman
Trump is not a conservative. He is radical.

Trump dodged a bullet. Let’s hope the world does, too – and he loses

Never before have so many alarm bells been rung about a Republican candidate by so many conservatives. I hope against hope that Donald Trump is not elected this week.

  • George Brandis
The QAnon Shaman, Donald Trump, and the US Supreme Court.

Many fear Trump will take power with guns. But his real weapon is the gavel

A close US election result might well reproduce the scenes of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. But the Supreme Court, and its habit of overturning norms, could be what helps Trump prevail.

  • Maher Mughrabi
A fat bike. It is not suggested that this bike was involved in the incident.

Police have given up on fat bikes

In Gwandalan, we have a plethora of unlicensed underage riders, often without helmets, riding noisy, unregistered two-wheeled machines, who even ride at speed on one wheel through the shopping area.

US President George W. Bush and John Howard took us to war in Iraq in 2003.

Staying the course: Howard rolled Defence plan to cut Iraq presence

Seven months after the invasion of Iraq, the Defence Department said it was time to cut Australia’s troop presence. Secret documents reveal how the plan was thwarted.

  • Shane Wright and Matthew Knott
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George W. Bush stands with firefighter Bob Beckwith on a burnt fire truck in front of the World Trade Centre during a tour of the devastation on September 14, 2001.

Firefighter who stood with Bush after 9/11 dies at 91

Bob Beckwith was a retired firefighter from Long Island who aided in the search for survivors after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Sydney on Wednesday.

Albanese wants ex-spy chief to find out if missing 2003 Iraq war papers were a cover-up

Slamming the discovery of the extra documents just before Christmas, the prime minister said there was no reason why the documents should not be made public.

  • Matthew Knott, Olivia Ireland and Shane Wright
A young girl and her baby sister emerge from the heat and smoke from a petrochemical plant near their family farm, just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border.

Ex-ASIO chief called in after 11th hour discovery of missing Iraq War secret papers

On March 18, 2003, John Howard committed Australia to war in Iraq, but the key advice relied upon by the national security committee is missing from recently released cabinet papers.

  • Shane Wright
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley greets people after the debate.

Abortion, high heels and insults dominate latest Republican debate

Women’s reproductive rights took centre stage at the latest heated clash between Donald Trump’s biggest White House rivals.

  • Farrah Tomazin

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