Kevin Rudd
Albanese’s class of 2025 tightens prime minister’s grip on Labor Party
Labor’s thumping election win delivers a boost for the PM in his party room, but the political certainties of decades past look to be over.
- Mike Foley
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- G7 summit
Australia races to lock in new meeting with Trump to avoid second snub
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may now change his plans and attend next week’s NATO summit – if a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump can be locked in.
- James Massola
Australians studying in the US to face tougher social media screening
Ambassador Kevin Rudd has also asked to meet Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to discuss the Trump administration’s ban on international students at Harvard.
- Michael Koziol
‘Distressing for Australian students’: Trump blocks Harvard’s international enrolments
Harvard said the latest crackdown, which affects thousands of students including Australians and could be expanded to other universities, was illegal and amounted to retaliation.
- Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson
‘A tax on Bluey’: Rudd mocks Trump’s movie tariffs
Australia’s ambassador to the US lampooned the proposed movie tariffs and ridiculed the Trump administration’s bid to impose 10 per cent tariffs on uninhabited islands.
- Michael Koziol
Kevin Rudd warns against showing weakness on Ukraine
In a Washington Anzac Day speech, Australia’s ambassador to the US says one of the messages from the Anzac story is that defending freedom takes human, physical and individual courage.
- Michael Koziol
Colourful underworld lawyer cops fine from law society
Underworld lawyer and amateur boxer Ahmed Dib has a colourful new partner and a slap on the wrist from the Law Society.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Less Hopelessly Devoted, maybe just hopeless: MSO go slow on Olivia Newton-John cancer cash
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has hit something of an off-note after promising a donation that took a long time to arrive.
- Liam Mannix, Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump’s tariffs: Friends with few benefits and foes with plenty
The Australian government was confident about an exemption from Trump’s trade imposts but as it turned out, that privilege was reserved only for enemies.
- Peter Hartcher
- Editorial
- Trade wars
Australia must bolster other partnerships as Trump pursues magical thinking
The effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on China and our other Asian trading partners will have inescapable economic consequences for us.
- The Age's View
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