Politics

Donald Trump took a loss at the supreme court, but moved quickly to make alternative arrangements.

Six takeaways from the US supreme court’s tariff decision

When the 6-3 ruling was announced, Donald Trump reacted with fury. But then he made a plan. Here’s what you need to know.

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The federal Opposition has repeated calls for the Albanese Government to come clean on attempts by a group of ISIS brides and their children to return to Australia, as confusion reigns over what role federal authorities are playing in their attempted repatriation.

Opposition demands ISIS brides answers

The federal Opposition has repeated calls for the Albanese Government to come clean on attempts by a group of ISIS brides and their children to return to Australia.

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A satellite image provided by Planet Labs shows the tanker Gas Exelero sitting at anchor off the coast of the Jamaican capital Kingston on Feb. 18, 2026.

Social unrest looms as new US blockade strangles Cuba

Nearly all of Cuba’s energy runs on oil and oil products. And Cuba appears to have few lifelines left.

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Leading Seaman Boatswains Mate Jack Dimmack looks out at the horizon as bridge watch on HMAS Toowoomba while in the South China Sea. LSIS Zac Dingle

Taiwan’s military confronts Navy in sensitive waters transit

Taiwan’s Air Force has warned an Australian navy helicopter to leave sensitive airspace during an overnight maritime operation in which an Anzac-class warship transited through contested waters near China. 

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Disturbing images have surfaced showing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor playing with a novelty ball alongside a toddler inside his Windsor home more than a decade ago.

Royal scandal deepens as disturbing images emerge

Images have surfaced showing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor playing with a novelty ball shaped like a breast alongside a toddler.

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Australia's legislative processes are the subject of a new integrity watchdog report. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Hate speech laws after Bondi terror attack were ‘rushed’

Laws to strengthen Australia's security in the wake of the Bondi shootings were rushed, according to a new report from the Centre for Public Integrity.

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about a ruling by the Supreme Court at the White House in Washington, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026.

How Trump plans to keep 10pc tariffs alive and kicking

After the US supreme court dealt Donald Trump a blow on his trade war, it didn’t take long for the president to reveal his alternative path of imposition.

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Thousands march carrying the national flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran and posters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran on Feb. 11, 2026.

If Trump greenlights Iran attack he commits region to war

Donald Trump is considering committing the US to another military campaign against Iran, a decision that carries the risk of igniting a conflict that could be far more dangerous than last year’s 12-day war.

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President Donald Trump said Friday he would impose a new across-the-board tariff after the Supreme Court ruled most of his levies illegal.

Supreme court deals Trump a historic blow on tariffs

The ruling deals a major blow to the US president’s signature economic policy, but he’s already scheming up ways to bring penalties back.

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Donald Trump has ordered an enormous military build-up in the Middle East. Yet he has seemed unwilling to order a risky strike.

Americans don’t want war with Iran. Trump doesn’t care

Should Donald Trump pull the United States into a needless war with Iran, the fallout could be horrific.

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Anthony Albanese says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has suffered an 'extraordinary fall from grace'.

‘An extraordinary fall from grace’: Albo on Andrew’s arrest

In his first remarks on Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, the Prime Minister said the former royal had suffered a ‘decline and fall’ from a position of ‘absolute privilege’.

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Jim Chalmers did a PhD on Paul Keating as prime minister. Now he’s rehearsing the same kind of attack lines his hero deployed against the Liberal Party’s John Hewson.

Chalmers copying Keating to distract from economic bad news

Jim Chalmers wrote a thesis on Paul Keating as prime minister and now he’s rehearsing the same kind of attack lines his hero deployed against the Liberal Party with his takedown of shadow treasurer Tim Wilson.

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The opposition says special powers should be used to keep a group of IS brides out of Australia. (Tessa Fox/AAP PHOTOS)

‘ISIS brides’ accused of 'child abuse'

A Labor minister has delivered some of the harshest criticism yet about an IS-linked group of Australian women who went to a war zone with children.

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Police have reportedly ‘received reports of a crime’ after Pauline Hanson’s controversial remarks about Muslims. NewsWire / John Gass

Bombshell update after Pauline Hanson’s ‘good Muslims’ interview

Police have ‘received reports of a crime’ after Pauline Hanson’s controversial remarks about Muslims.

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Former MP Rory Amon is on trial accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy in 2017. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Former MP faces child sexual abuse trial

A former state MP has pleaded not guilty to sexually molesting a teenager in a car park bathroom, arguing he thought the boy was at least 16 at the time.

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