Labor’s central offer was clear. Then the Coalition hit the ground losing

Anthony Albanese has been disciplined and clear with his message. And Donald Trump has only helped the cause.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Pretend friends,real risks. Harming kids is now part of big tech’s business model

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto was “move fast and break things”. But now it’s children and families who are being broken by the relentless thirst for big tech profit.

  • Peter Hartcher
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After polling day,our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in

By pretending that a planet-scale upheaval is not happening,our political leaders are not helping Australia deal with it.

  • Peter Hartcher
Illustration by Dionne Gain

Trump’s peacemaker charade has failed. Ukraine and the West will pay a price

After two years of insisting that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in his first 24 hours if returned to the White House,Trump is preparing to walk away from the problem entirely.

  • Peter Hartcher

Messiah to pariah:Dutton stopped believing in Trump,and now we know why

The US president had unsettled the election campaign from the outset. But in the past couple of weeks,the tangerine titan has become totally toxic.

  • Peter Hartcher

Trump’s gut tells him he’s got China on the ropes. He couldn’t be more wrong

Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US,not China,that could find itself outside the tent.

  • Peter Hartcher
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The 2025 campaign will hide policy lethargy behind personal animosity.

A campaign of sound and fury pauses for a moment of constructive policy competition

It’s taken too long for parties to take the housing shortage seriously. Sunday’s campaign launches offer some hope that might be about to change.

  • Peter Hartcher

The politics of grievance was a winner for Trump. It’s not working for Dutton

Excited by dominance in meaningless midterm polls,misled by the false analogy of Trump’s political success,the Coalition allowed itself to think it could win without doing the work required.

  • Peter Hartcher
Donald Trump’s China tariffs are an economic act of war

Donald Trump’s China tariffs an act of economic war

The consequences of this war are unpredictable,but we know one thing already:trade is conducted for mutual benefit – it’s win-win. Its cancellation is lose-lose.

  • Peter Hartcher

Trump’s tariffs:Friends with few benefits and foes with plenty

The Australian government was confident about an exemption from Trump’s trade imposts but as it turned out,that privilege was reserved only for enemies.

  • Peter Hartcher