A former member of the United States Navy’s top brass says he hopes Australia would send its nuclear powered submarines to support America if there is a war over Taiwan. Ex-US Navy secretary Richard Spencer addressed the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday nearly a week after Anthony AlbaneseContinue Reading
A no-nonsense sister on Married At First Sister makes the Australia Day Honours shortlist on Tuesday night when she slaps down her exasperating brother-in-law and plonks him in the bin – all while effortlessly sipping a frozen daiquiri. Cheers can be heard around Australia in response to the triumph. There’sContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese is facing fresh calls to dump a scheduled tax cut for the wealthy, with a key crossbencher claiming the public won’t care if he breaks a promise to keep them. Jacqui Lambie, who holds a crucial balance of power vote in the Senate, made no secret of herContinue Reading
When Paul Keating finally won his spectacular double-tap leadership coup against Bob Hawke in 1991, legend has it he sent a message to Hawke’s jittery praetorian guard: “Peace in our time.” In other words, there would be no reprisals, no payback, no stripping of ministries for those who had theContinue Reading
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has sidestepped questions about why he hasn’t campaigned for the NSW Liberals ahead of the upcoming state election, but he has made a startling confession. Speaking to Erin Molan on Sky News on Friday, Mr Dutton revealed he did not watch the Liberal Party campaignContinue Reading
The Rabbitohs have continued one of rugby league’s most high-profile and ongoing feuds, sending social media into a frenzy after their cheeky comment on the Roosters’ Instagram on Saturday night. The Bunnies’ social media team were absolutely on fire to a gloating post from the Roosters, who had captioned aContinue Reading
The man tasked with stabilising trade relations with China is “very confident” both he and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will still visit China this year, despite Beijing’s strong criticism of the AUKUS deal. But the Opposition has conceded the relationship with China is “not at its best” at the momentContinue Reading
Former prime minister Paul Keating served his signature cocktail at the National Press Club this week: intelligence, insight and an occasional droplet of wisdom, all overpowered by the bitter taste of malice. Australians do enjoy a bitter drink, of course, which is presumably why Mr Keating’s erudite vindictiveness so oftenContinue Reading
A top Canberra defence expert has lashed Australia’s multi-billion dollar AUKUS submarine project as amounting to a promise to follow the US into a war against China. The Australian National University’s Hugh White, an emeritus professor of strategic studies, unleashed a quite extraordinary criticism of Australia’s nuclear submarine plan inContinue Reading
Malcolm Turnbull has joined the chorus of former prime ministers criticising the government’s $368bn AUKUS deal, saying there are more risks than there are rewards. A day after Paul Keating’s extraordinary spray in which he labelled the deal the “worst in all history”, Mr Turnbull was more measured in hisContinue Reading