US Politics

Donald Trump’s tariffs in 2025 marked the worst US-led trade war since 1930, with one Labor minister labelling it a ‘dog act’. But the American President was just doing what Australia did much more recently.

US health authorities have dropped the number of vaccines they recommend for every child, saying the change aligns with similar developed countries.

The US Secret Service says a man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home has been detained.

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela was a ‘dead country’ before he directed an attack on its capital and had put another country on notice, warning he ‘will have to do something’.

The country has the world’s largest petroleum reserves. Getting them out of the ground will be tortuous.

US President Donald Trump has again inflamed tensions over a strategically important and mineral-rich Arctic territory that belongs to a European ally.

Here, might makes right, and laws and rules fall away.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has reiterated Australia’s support for international law after US strikes on Venezuela, adding it would be for America to ‘make clear the legal basis’ of their action. 

After the brazen US attack on Venezuela, which saw a president captured and taken to New York to face criminal charges, murmurs are growing that Greenland is next on Donald Trump’s hit list. 

There’s a familiar ring to Donald Trump’s plan to send US energy giants to Venezuela to use the wealth generated from rekindling oil production to stabilise that country and cement American energy dominance.

Australia’s Venezuelan community processes the complex fallout of the strikes as Anthony Albanese urges Donald Trump and Venezuelan leaders to pursue a peaceful transition.

A complex operation to bring Venezuelan President Nichols Maduro to the United States on Federal drug charges has wrapped up, with the leader now seen walking in chains.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Is this a coup, regime change, or a slide into chaos? The next few days may clarify the answers to these questions and what happens next. But if they don’t, danger looms.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is now in a New York prison. Some of what happens next is predictable, but the extraordinary nature of the case makes much unclear.