Politics

US president Donald Trump announced he would ‘seek to negotiate’ foreign agreements instead of slapping tariffs on Australia’s critical minerals.

US president Donald Trump announced he would “seek to negotiate” foreign agreements instead of slapping tariffs on Australia’s critical minerals.

With just days until Parliament returns, Labor’s hate speech reforms are facing an uncertain path following more explosive accusations of politicisation and factional deadlock.

Big pay rises for brazen public sector unions are intensifying a debt crisis in Australia’s states.

ANDREW GREENE: Liberal insiders give Sussan Ley credit for harnessing the anger of the Jewish community and deploying it against the PM, but they fear it has done little to lift the party’s electoral fortunes. 

AARON PATRICK: Even South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas wasn’t powerful enough to shut down anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been reinvited to speak at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival.

Nearly one year into his second term, US President Donald Trump declares he answers only to his own morality.

Australia’s peak Jewish body has warned the Coalition against a ‘wholesale rejectio’” of Labor’s proposed hate speech laws and urged Opposition leader Sussan Ley to support them. 

THE WASHINGTON POST: As tensions rise in Minneapolis, Renee Good’s family announced they hired one of the lawyers who represented George Floyd’s family after he was murdered by a police officer.

Donald Trump's latest action is part of a broader effort to ⁠create incentives for chipmakers to produce more semiconductors in the United States.

The passing of the ‘Sneaker Goddess’ was confirmed by her mother on Monday.

A WA man has been charged with threatening to kill Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns through an online video.

The Opposition Leader has accused Labor of pulling together ‘clumsy’, ‘unsalvageable’ legislation that fails to mention the term ‘radical Islam’, in turn the PM has accused the Coalition of ‘playing politics’.

The Pentagon has ordered US warships in the South China Sea to move immediately to the Middle East, reports claim, and Iran has shut down its airspace, as fears of imminent military intervention grow.

AARON PATRICK: Thanks to China’s one-child policy, the country now has approximately 30 million ‘surplus men’.