Politics

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump is receiving gifts by the dozen. Here’s why calling him the most corrupt man to ever sit in the Oval Office is no understatement.

Sussan Ley has declared the Coalition will back Labor’s environmental law overhaul next week as long as the Government makes seven key changes.

CAMERON MILNER: The Albanese Government paid out $2.4 million to Brittany Higgins. If our PM has nothing to hide, he should not fear an independent inquiry.

Leader Mark Speakman resigned on Thursday afternoon when he realised he did not have enough support to keep the job.

MARK RILEY: Hosting the conference in Adelaide was going to cost us billions. Maybe it is best that we just cop this one up the bracket.

US President Donald Trump announced that he had approved the release of the Epstein files, but his approval is not as clear cut as he appeared to insinuate.

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is retreating from his most prominent public roles.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Australia has conceded to Turkey for rights to host the 2026 UN climate summit, undermining Labor’s facile claim that they were ‘back’ on the world stage.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to sit down with a number of world leaders on the sidelines of the global summit, including his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The IMF says Australia needs to raise the GST, bring back the mining tax and cut back on expensive costs like the NDIS.

First-term MP Jess Wilson’s hopes of leading the languishing Victorian Liberal branch back to power rest on party discipline not sighted in a decade, a former premier says.

The 28-point proposal, drafted without Ukrainian involvement, reflects the maximalist demands the Kremlin has made throughout the war.

Turkey will host COP31 after coming to a compromise with rival bidder Australia after more than two years of disputing who gets hosting rights.

Only days after the Victorian Liberal leadership spill, NSW faces its own showdown as speculation mounts over a partyroom challenge.