by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 3, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
As the milestones to US authoritarianism keep coming, Australia’s media remain doggedly fixated on one mightily obtuse question: are you embarrassed that you can’t get a meeting with Donald Trump, Mr Albanese? Again and again the question comes — it’s taken on a...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 3, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Anthony Albanese must be having a good old chortle. Having Donald Trump in office is unarguably great for Labor. The US president hovers on the horizon as a perpetual threat to Australia. He does the political job for Labor that Tampa did for the Liberals. He is the...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Apr 10, 2025 | Opinion, The world
Surely we’ve all been around too long to keep being blindsided by Donald Trump, a character who sets fire to the global trading order one day and heads off for a round of golf the next? And as the world’s sharemarkets crashed, the White House announced that the US...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Apr 4, 2025 | Opinion, Politics, The world
So who’s the winner as the first week of the campaign comes to a close? Anthony Albanese? Peter Dutton? The Politics reckons it’s someone whose name isn’t even on the ballot but who has commandeered the hottest topic: Malcolm Turnbull, the Lord of Point...
by Murray Hogarth and David Hardaker | Mar 17, 2025 | Business, Opinion
Industry Minister Ed Husic called it a “dog act”. A more diplomatic but nonetheless unhappy PM Anthony Albanese called it “not a friendly act”. But there’s a robust Queensland expression to describe US moves last week to hit Australia with tariffs, with the...
