Politics

Australian trade officials have warned further US tariffs on sectors including pharmaceutical and digital services could be on the horizon in the wake of America’s recent ‘slave labour’ levy. 

AARON PATRICK: The One Nation leader’s anti-immigration crusade has turned her into, by one measure, Australia’s most-popular political leader.

Are we going to get a discount on our second hand AUKUS subs? Don’t count on it.

Before One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said foreigners should be forced to sell their homes in Australia, the party’s leader went even further.

The Kennedy Center has ordered staff to erase President Donald Trump’s name from official materials, less than a week after a federal judge ruled it had been illegally added to the storied arts institution.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s announcement comes a day after North Korea unveiled a new facility to produce nuclear bomb fuels. 

A leading property economist is warning Labor’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will cause rents to soar without seeing more first homebuyers enter the housing market as investors lost interest.

A One Nation senator has been kicked off live radio and told to sort out his policy position after failing to answer simple questions around the minor party’s views on foreign ownership of residential property.

The government is brushing off claims large tax reforms in the Federal Budget are being raced through parliament too quickly.

Donald Trump has ripped into what he labelled a ‘meaningless’ vote by the US Congress after Republicans sided with Democrats in a bid to restrict his powers in Iran.

Newly recruited One Nation candidate Barnaby Joyce was forced into an extraordinary backflip on live TV after appearing uncertain about the party’s policy on home ownership for non-citizens.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The once-near unanimous consensus supporting AUKUS has gone. The PM needs to act quickly to make sure public opinion doesn’t deteriorate.

Mark Butler has defended permanent residents’ access to Labor’s first-home buyer scheme, rejecting Coalition calls to restrict the support to Australian citizens.

Australia will ramp up protests against the Trump administration's ‘unjustified’ proposed tariffs but diplomats face an up-hill battle to secure a carve-out.