Politics

If US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed any discontent or even opposition about Australia recognising a Palestinian state, it didn’t matter and more importantly, it didn’t work.

US President Donald Trump has spoken ahead of his meeting with Russian President and is hopeful that ‘Putin will make peace,’ but says the aim of talks is to set up a second meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.

America’s top diplomat in Israel has branded Australia's Palestinian statehood recognition 'ill-timed' while hostages remain captive under Hamas control.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump appears poised to reward Putin for his invasion of Ukraine, a stark departure from the US Senate’s 2022 resolution condemning Russia’s leader as a war criminal.

Business wants the Government to set a target to cut the cost of red tape by a quarter over the next five years at its economic roundtable next week.

The Prime Minister has blamed the media and the Opposition for feeding Hamas propaganda, deflecting criticism from his own move to recognise Palestinian statehood.

EDITORIAL: By switching allegiances away from our old ally Israel and coming out in support of Palestinian recognition now, Mr Albanese is picking a side. 

AARON PATRICK: Before she became a defender of the Jewish state, the Liberal Party leader was the right’s most prominent supporter of the Palestinian movement.

Joe Biden's son Hunter has made damning claims about Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Melania Trump, but the US First Lady is having none of it, and is threatening big legal action.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister and close aide to Kim Jong-un, has bluntly dismissed Seoul’s latest peace overtures, a clear signal North Korea isn’t ready to thaw relations with its new liberal neighbour.

The annual Kennedy Centre Honours production may see significant changes under Donald Trump, who revealed the honourees during a visit to the arts complex on Wednesday.

Donald Trump is painting a picture of Washington, DC, as a city gripped by crime, but federal figures reveal the reality is a 30-year low.

Labor’s Katelin McInerney will recontest the seat of Kiama after the resignation of long-time former MP and convicted rapist, Gareth Ward.