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Trump's Art of the Greenland Deal

Trump’s fixation on Greenland reveals how ego, deal-making bravado and hard-power geopolitics ...  
Trump’s dementia destroys time-honoured global alliances

Last week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting exposed rifts between allies that are unlikely to ...  
Trump’s MAGA militia strategy and the erosion of restraint

As the midterms approach, Trump’s politics of force are reshaping both foreign policy and ...  
The death of the Coalition and a requiem for the Old Order

The latest split in Australia’s conservative Coalition is yet another signal the old, establi ...  
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EDITORIAL: The death of the Coalition and a requiem for the Old Order

The latest split in Australia’s conservative party Coalition is yet another sign that the old ...  
Trump unbound: An assault on democracy at home and abroad

Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy ...  
Western Sahara, Trump and the exposure of international law

By recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, Trump revealed how conditional interna ...  
Journalists need to resist adopting News Corp’s agenda

When News Corp frames the story, too many journalists stop asking whether the frame is true — ...  
The end of sovereign immunity: America’s new doctrine of capture

By seizing a sitting head of state, Washington has replaced international law with a doctrine of ...  
Antisemitism, extremism and the case for a cautious Royal Commission

Independent Australia cautiously welcomes the Government's announcement this week of a Royal Comm ...  
Bondi Royal Commission risks expanding power instead of delivering justice

Marketed as accountability, the Bondi Royal Commission risks entrenching executive power, racia ...  
Pole-to-Pole with Donald Trump: An Australian guide to the new flat Earth

As Donald Trump redraws the world from ice cap to ice cap, Australia risks discovering that being ...  
Trump’s Venezuela abduction shatters claims of Western moral authority

By kidnapping a foreign leader, the Trump Administration has stripped the West of any credibility ...  
Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the ...  
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EDITORIAL: Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

The so-called rule-based order has finally collapsed.  
Australia’s ‘national interest’ falters in the face of Trump’s lawlessness

Australia’s leaders proclaim a rules-based international order, but fall conspicuously silent ...  
Prime ministerial loyalty on trial in Australia’s ‘Gaza’ war

The political uproar around antisemitism in Australia this coming year will hinge on what happens ...  
Let’s hope 2026 is way better than last year

Elections this year could continue the drift away from democracy, or reverse it.  
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