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Some of the biggest car brands in the world are in a panic after getting caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
The road to ending world poverty runs parallel to a plan to award Musk a $US1 trillion pay packet. Investing in Tesla is now a choice between...
The critical minerals deal has thrust Australia into a position of power, sending a powerful message to allies and others: you can’t ignore us...
John Murtagh was a boy who learned respect for rural doctoring when he was struck down by polio. He would go on to shape general practice around...
There is an illogical view that Collingwood’s failure to add senior players of note during the trade period was a setback for a club that is...
As the phantom of the Ghost Train, Mr Lamont became my boyhood hero.
Australia is the most “reflexively secretive” country that this former foreign correspondent has dealt with. If we don’t defend our freedoms, we...
I have a lovely husband. We’ve been together for a very long time; 50 years in November, to be precise. We are growing old together and, by and...
As Anthony Albanese headed home from Washington, DC, at the most triumphant point of his long political career, did he reflect on how much he owes...
Horrified. Sickened. Appalled. Whatever descriptor you prefer, it is what we all felt when we saw the images of Lauren Darul allegedly plunging a...
What do you get for the man who has everything? In Donald Trump’s case, the answer, it seems, is a model submarine. Anthony Albanese’s meeting with...
The steep plunge in precious metals prices overnight was almost predestined. They had run up too hard and too far, and some of the factors behind...
It doesn’t get any better than reading the entrails of a billowing stoush between Australia’s highest-profile export, Rupert Murdoch, and his...
London: Prince Andrew has fought for years to stay in a stately home near Windsor Castle despite a persistent effort to move him away from the...
If you thought Geelong had a Bailey Smith problem, you were wrong. It’s you who has a Bailey Smith problem. My goodness, did you not see the way he...
When Lachlan Galvin turned down the chance to join Parramatta last season, the decision was all the more painful for the club because they should...
Washington: It’s hard to believe it has already been 15 years since then-prime minister Kevin Rudd lobbed the “mining tax” into the national...
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman wants to change how 3 billion people use the internet. Altman, who is behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT,...
Convinced atheists might be surprised to know that the God in whom they do not believe is one Christians also do not accept. That is because,...
Few toymakers have garnered as much investor attention as China’s Pop Mart International Group, the maker of Labubu, a plush accessory seen...
This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry...
I felt a weird kind of mourning the other day. The quiet kind, where nothing dramatic happens, but you notice something’s missing. And,...
There was hardly a spare seat in the house at Wembley last Sunday. There rarely is. A crowd of 86,152 flocked to London’s iconic stadium for the...
Few things can unite Australians like CEO salaries. Opinion polls have found about 80 per cent of us think corporate bosses are paid too much....
Melbourne is at a crossroads. The number of people who call the west home stands at close to 1 million. By 2050, it is projected to be 1.8 million,...
This week’s visit to Washington, DC by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was a triumphant marker in his pragmatic path on foreign and defence policy....
There’s a common misconception that once you reach the aged care lifetime cap, the bills stop. Sadly, that’s not quite true. The lifetime cap...
I am 67 and my husband is 68, and we are both retired. Between us, we have about $1.5 million in superannuation, from which we currently receive...
A ladder truck, an angle grinder, a maxi-scooter, and seven minutes. That appears to be all it took for thieves to nab priceless jewellery from the...
China’s economy is slowing, but it’s holding up better than expected in the face of Donald Trump’s trade war. Even as China’s “Fourth Plenum”...
Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage wasn’t just another tech hiccup. It was a stark – and for many people, incredibly frustrating – reminder of how...
Washington: There is no way to describe Anthony Albanese’s first proper meeting with Donald Trump as anything other than a raging success. With one...
And just like that, it was done. Almost a year on from the re-election of Donald Trump and six months on from the re-election of Anthony Albanese,...
It’s the Test match eight years in the making that traditionalists hope will resurrect one of rugby league’s greatest rivalries. Yet as fans in...
Seldom has the middling been the cause of so much relief. Six months after the White House unveiled steep tariffs, the global economy has held up...
Jerusalem: Ten days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenuousness, and of the...
Our ailing regional airline Rex has got a buyer, and it’s a relatively unknown North Carolina-based company, Air T, whose business is mainly...
It’s perhaps the least expected outcome of the Albanese summit with Trump. After all the hysteria, harmony. Trump praised the Australian people:...
I’ve started and stopped writing this article many times over the past few months. It’s a topic that can’t be done justice in a short opinion...
It started with a bang. A cameraman collided with a large mirror on the wall opposite Donald Trump in the White House Cabinet Room, and he noticed...
Anthony Albanese and his team, including ambassador Kevin Rudd, should be very pleased with their meeting with President Donald Trump. They...
It was New Year’s Eve and we were dancing like sugared-up 12-year-olds on the kids’ trampoline. At the stroke of midnight, we loudly, drunkenly,...
There was a time when Melbourne prided itself on being the most liveable city in the world, tolerant, thoughtful, creative and diverse. We wore...
When JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon talked about cockroaches last week, he hit a raw nerve within the increasingly complex global financial system....
Singapore/Jakarta: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto was thousands of kilometres from troubles at home and at the top of his international...
After an evening of well-meaning – but mostly dull – “this belongs to my whole team” acceptance speeches, Len Ikitau drew a laugh at Sydney...
It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead. But I come not to bury the self-proclaimed “secretary of war” – rather, to...
London: King Charles has found a way to shield the royal family from each new revelation about Prince Andrew after years of damage to the monarchy....
As an investment rule of thumb, by the time the retail masses are climbing on board a “hot” asset, and it has reached FOMO status, it is a sign...
It’s tricky to rank the relative power of countries. Until they go to war with each other. For instance, Russia was always rated as vastly superior...