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Buttrose will no longer be speaking at the organisation’s marquee 20th anniversary fundraiser.
It worked for Bob Hawke in the 1980s, and for Roger Cook earlier this month, so why not in the 2025 federal election?
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The prime minister should ignore the counsel of appeasers and retaliate against Trump’s tariffs — and use the chance to reshape his image.
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World responds to Trump tariff frenzy
The EU and Canada have announced swift retaliations to Donald Trump’s tariffs (though Australia and the UK have been more cautious), and the bad headlines just keep coming for Peter Dutton.
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Twenty-five percent steel and aluminium tariffs will be placed on Australia after Donald Trump refused an exemption, and Peter Dutton has been losing momentum in the lead-up to the federal election.
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Refusing to comment on these Trump outrages got us precisely sod all
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‘Terrorism’, ‘massacre’: How Australian press covered the fake terrorist caravan plot
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Ask not for whom the Freo Doctor blows. It blows for thee
When economists tell you Donald Trump is *all* wrong about foreigners paying for his tariffs, don’t believe them. When large countries trade, they move prices.
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