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Opinion & Perspectives

I mentored the next British PM. Here’s what Australians need to know about him

Keir Starmer does not have the charisma of Boris Johnson or Tony Blair, but charisma in politicians is much overrated.

Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Robertson

Human rights barrister and author

Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China

Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.

Lisa Visentin
Lisa Visentin

North Asia Correspondent

Trump 2.0: What four more years mean for Australia and the world

In the first of a five-part series, international editor Peter Hartcher examines why Donald Trump is more inclined to like a US enemy than a friend if he wins a second term as president.

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

Political and international editor

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North America

United Airlines Flight 325, an Airbus A320, which lost part of its engine.

‘Abnormal noise’: United Airlines jet turns back after engine piece falls off

The US aviation industry more broadly has been under heightened scrutiny since January, when a panel broke off of an Alaska Airlines flight.

  • by Mary Schlangenstein and Allyson Versprille
A copy of the Ten Commandments hang on a wall in the Bible belt in the US.

Trump’s Louisiana allies pass law requiring Ten Commandments on school walls

Weeks after moving to reclassify abortion pills as “dangerous” substances, Louisiana has taken action that will “result in unconstitutional religious coercion of students”.

  • by Farrah Tomazin

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Asia

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Li Qiang’s in Perth this week.

Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China

Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.

  • by Lisa Visentin
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, drives a car which was presented by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at a garden of the Kumsusan State Guest House in Pyongyang.

Putin and Kim getting behind the wheel of new ‘alliance’

The Russian president’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years is being watched closely by Seoul and Washington.

  • by Kim Tong-Hyung

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Ornella Byak, entrepreneur, charity CEO, volunteer extraordinaire, outside the Rag & Famish Hotel, opposite her alma mater, Monty.

How Ornella’s ‘very expensive education’ in Sydney pushed her to build a school across the Timor Sea

At the age of 14, Ornella Byak had an encounter that shaped the course of her life.

  • by Lia Timson

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