Politics

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’.

Tony Burke has accused the Coalition of ‘hypocrisy’ amid signals the opposition may vote against Labor’s proposed hate speech laws.

Iran has broadcast a blunt, direct threat to US President Donald Trump as tensions between nations erupt.

Faith group leaders are calling for a vote on hate speech reforms to be pushed back, saying the "rushed" time frame prevents proper scrutiny.

Denmark and the United States have a fundamental difference of opinion about Greenland but the two will continue to talk, the Danish foreign minister says.

Some American and British forces have been withdrawn from a Qatar air base after a senior Iranian official warned of retaliation if US President Donald Trump proceeded with military action over the killing of demonstrators.