Politics

Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Party will break away from the Liberals for the second time since the election, blaming Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.

President Donald Trump took aim at many familiar targets, and some new ones, in a lengthy speech at the World Economic Forum, praising and threatening European allies while repeating demands for Greenland.

Global economic body the OECD has called on Australia to rein in the NDIS and make changes to property taxes to help fix the budget and boost productivity.

The Chinese Communist Party believes it is prevailing in its superpower competition with the United States and has unprecedented levels of confidence in its decline, former prime minister Kevin Rudd has said.

Ukraine and Russia are close to a deal and if their leaders don't come to an agreement soon ‘they're stupid’, says US President Donald Trump.

Flags will be flown at half-mast and Australian buildings will be lit up in a National Day of Mourning honouring the 15 victims of the Bondi terror attack.

US President Donald Trump says he has ‘formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland’ after talks in Davos with NATO’s Secretary General.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s possible to achieve positive ends through Trumpian means, but the mechanism of that achievement requires constraints, and the ones we have now seem too weak for the purpose.

The Coalition appears likely to again split after all eight remaining National Party frontbenchers quit the Shadow Ministry over the Opposition’s handling of new laws in response to the Bondi massacre.

The Defence Department Secretary has declared the US alliance ‘more important than ever’ on a visit to Washington.

Sussan Ley’s authority is being tested as three National frontbenchers sensationally quit shadow cabinet for not backing the Liberal leader’s support for hate reforms.

JENI O’DOWD: When the stakes are high enough, Australia’s major parties can unite. They’ve done it before. They could have done it again.

The US President was travelling to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland when his plane experienced an electrical problem.

STEPHEN JOHNSON: The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir should have been banned years ago, but banning it could see a repeat of the early 1950s when Australia tried to ban the Communist Party.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump’s brazen land grab flies in the face of more than 100 years of American foreign policy of protecting the sovereignty of smaller nations.