Politics

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Videos on social media appear to contradict the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis. WARNING: Graphic

US President Donald Trump has retreated from ‘appalling’ comments that NATO allied troops stayed ‘a little off the front lines’ in Afghanistan.

The Prime Minister has announced a long-time senior public servant as Kevin Rudd’s replacement as Australia’s Ambassador to the US.

Tension is mounting in Minneapolis after a man was shot dead by a federal officer in the second such incident in the US city this month.

Disenchanted Liberals are hoping for a clean kill, hoping that Sussan Ley will resign as party leader as Andrew Hastie firms as her replacement.

Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has slammed the US President for his ‘massive slur’ against Aussie soldiers and other coalition forces who ‘fought, bled and died alongside Americans’ in Afghanistan.

Comments from the US president that NATO forces kept ‘a little off the front lines’ in Afghanistan sparked dismay in the United Kingdom, which lost 457 troops.

With Sussan Ley’s leadership in rocky territory, Anthony Albanese has claimed the Liberals undermined her leadership from the moment she took on the post.

EXCLUSIVE: The Government has begun talks on removing a Nationals Senator from a powerful parliamentary intelligence committee after she crossed the floor to vote against Labor’s hate speech laws.

Anthony Albanese is struggling to find a way to decline an offer from Donald Trump to join the US President’s controversial Board of Peace’.

Two former defence ministers turned weapons lobbyists will join an official Australian trade delegation to the Middle East this weekend for meeting in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The crowd of 750 people who gathered to farewell political strategist Tim Picton included a Prime Minister, Premiers and billionaires but it felt like a family affair.

EXCLUSIVE: The $2.5 billion project to create a world-leading asset for detecting and countering foreign threats finally bears fruit at RAAF’s South Australia base.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.

Labor's review of its thumping 2025 federal election victory has found the biggest threat to its future success might lie beyond the floundering opposition.