The past 48 hours have seen relations between Trump and Zelensky rapidly deteriorate while Ukraine and Europe were left out of talks between senior American and Russian officials.
Three fights in the first nine seconds of a hotly anticipated USA-Canada hockey clash seemed to speak volumes about the state of relations between the two neighbours.
Canada’s visiting trade minister said Australia and Canada should forcefully argue the case for free trade as Donald Trump upends the global trading system.
Trump is again floating the idea of acquiring Greenland. Could he? And what do Greenlanders think?
Australian prime ministers have traditionally had poor name recognition in the US. But Anthony Albanese can change that.
Australia complained to Beijing after a dangerous encounter with a Chinese fighter jet and sent a frigate to the Torres Strait to shadow three Chinese warships.
Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.
A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters,making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.
Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.
Being a close ally of the US does not mean we have to be so slavish that we abandon independent thinking.