Turnbull learns Trump doesn't 'make nice'
And so, with the advent of Donald Trump's America First presidency, an Australian diplomatic tradition dies.
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Lifetime visa ban for refugees in doubt as crossbenchers baulk
Malcolm Turnbull's "ring of steel" asylum seeker arrangements designed to buttress his new US resettlement deal could be weakened by Labor, Greens and crossbench opposition to a proposed lifetime visa ban on post-2013 boat arrivals.
Trump backer says US refugee swap deal is 'dead on arrival'
Canberra's get-out-of-jail card on the future of the hundreds of Australia-bound refugees on Nauru and Manus Island may have a very short shelf-life, with the head of a prominent US anti-immigration think tank warning: "this is the kind of thing the Trump administration will nix on Day 1."
Incompetence of Bush, Blair and Howard
The three buccaneers took leave of their senses in invading Iraq – George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard.
Grand designs in Rudd's House of Cards
Run, Rudd, Run. Can the former Prime Minster 'who pissed everyone off' snare the UN's top job?