Politics

THE ECONOMIST: By prioritising oil over democracy, the United States has fundamentally altered the global order.

NSW Premier Chris Minns is also reconsidering the appointment of a pro-Palestinian lawyer to the state’s Supreme Court.

LATIKA M BOURKE: When faced with the most consequential test of his prime ministership to date, Mr Albanese emerged a follower and not a leader. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump sought to present himself as indefatigable, projecting stamina and energy for a news organisation he has accused of seditious behaviour for reporting about his health and age.

Federal immigration agents have shot two people in Portland, one day after ICE agents shot dead a mother of three in Minneapolis. 

A former high-ranking Australian Federal Police officer will lead an internal review of the organisation’s possible failures in the lead up to last month’s Bondi massacre, and how it responded afterwards.

The PM has defended the weeks it took him to call a royal commission into Bondi and anti-Semitism, as the Opposition leader said he had to be ‘dragged kicking and screaming’ to doing the right thing.

‘It’s an equity issue as well as a health issue from my perspective.’

Vice President JD Vance has defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman, declaring that the woman had intentionally sought to ram the officer.

The PM has hit back at criticism of his response to the Bondi Beach terror attack.

The Prime Minister has hit back after being asked about excluding Australia’s domestic spy chief from National Security Committee meetings.

Federal ministers should be forced to testify at a royal commission into the Bondi attacks, the Opposition leader has urged, as senior Jewish figures give the inquiry chair their support.

President Donald Trump promises to rebuild Venezuela ‘in a very profitable way’ after ordering its leader's capture but won't say how long US oversight will be.

ANDREW GREENE: Those close to the Prime Minister believe he finally came to the realisation late last week he could no longer resist calls to establish a Commonwealth royal commission.

From former High Court judge to a barrel girl with the comedy alter-ego ‘Ginger De Winter’ — the woman appointed to lead the royal commission into Australia’s worst terror attack has had a colourful career.