Schwartz Media, publisher of the Saturday Paper, the Monthly and the Quarterly Essay, recently sold its 7am podcast to Solstice Media, with the promise its stable of journalists would still appear on the popular show. But just a month out from the deal, the Schwartz journalists have been told they can no longer talk on the podcast. The first episode published by the new owners was about Palestinians who were killed as they waited for aid, and a later Gaza-related episode interviewed the executive officer at the Jewish Council of…
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Scott Morrison tells US Australia risks going to sleep on China threat after diplomatic ‘charm and flattery’
The Chinese Communist party hopes Western democracies “go to sleep on the threat” it poses to the international order, former prime minister Scott Morrison has told a congressional committee in the US. In a forthright appearance before the hawkish US House of Representatives select committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist party, Morrison said China had changed diplomatic tack after he lost the 2022 election to Anthony Albanese. “This included abandoning their economic and diplomatic bullying and coercion for more inductive engagement, laced with…
Australia politics live: Australia joins 24 countries to demand immediate end to Gaza war
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Scott Morrison to testify before US House panel on China
The former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison will testify at a US House panel hearing next week about countering China’s “economic coercion against democracies,” the committee said on Friday. Rahm Emanuel, the former US ambassador to Japan, will also testify before the House select committee on China. Relations with China, already rocky after Australia banned Huawei from its 5G broadband network in 2018, cooled further in 2020 after the Morrison government called for an independent investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus. China responded by imposing tariffs on Australian…
Albanese says Coalition failed to have call with Beijing for years as opposition criticises ‘indulgent’ China trip
Anthony Albanese has sniped back at the opposition’s criticism of his “indulgent” six-day visit to China, pointing out the former Coalition government failed to hold a single phone call with the major trading partner for years. The prime minister has spent this week touring the country with stops in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu amid a period of geopolitical instability and escalating trade hostilities between the US and its trading partners. Albanese met with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the premier, Li Qiang, to discuss a number of issues, including…
Albanese’s warm welcome in Beijing shows icy tensions are a thing of the past – at least for now | Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese may be humming Paul Kelly and Powderfinger when his plane lands back in Australia from China on Friday. After more than two hours of talks with the country’s president, Xi Jinping, a series of successful business events, and a retracing of Gough Whitlam’s steps at the Great Wall, the prime minister is likely to view his six-day visit as a diplomatic home run. A trip designed to capitalise on the increasingly warm relations between Beijing and Canberra showed all signs of success, with a special lunch organised to…
Australian journalists confronted by Chinese security guards during Albanese’s Beijing trip
Security guards tried to stop Australian journalists covering Anthony Albanese’s visit to China from leaving a popular Beijing tourist destination, just hours before the prime minister’s talks with Xi Jinping on Tuesday. Albanese is on a six-day visit to China and is due to meet Xi, the country’s president, and its premier, Li Qiang, in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon. But ahead of the meeting, security crews approached journalists and Australian embassy staff at the capital’s historic Drum and Bell Towers area. Journalists from the ABC, SBS, Nine, Seven and Sky…
Pentagon wants to make Aukus work but some stakeholders have ‘serious concerns’, senior US defence official says
Some US military stakeholders have “very serious concerns” about the Aukus arrangement but the Pentagon wants “to make this thing work”, a senior American defence official says. While they say a review of the nuclear submarine pact is being undertaken in good faith, it will not be completed within 30 days, as initially anticipated. Still, Washington is sticking to its request for Australia to give “a clear sense” of how it would respond militarily, including with the Aukus submarines, to future conflicts. While Anthony Albanese declares the Australian government wants…
Australia news live: Albanese to raise concerns over Chinese steel dumping; Grace Kim wins golf major in miraculous finish
From 43m ago Albanese to raise concerns over Chinese steel dumping at roundtable Anthony Albanese will raise Australian concerns over Chinese steel dumping as he urges industry leaders from both nations to work together to develop low-carbon steel production methods, AAP reports. At a roundtable of Australian iron ore producers and Chinese steelmakers in Shanghai on Monday, Albanese will call on China to address an oversupply of steel in the global market. ‘It is in both countries’ interests to ensure a sustainable and market-driven global steel sector,’ the PM will…
Australia won’t commit in advance to joining hypothetical US-China conflict, Pat Conroy says
Australia will refuse any US request to join a “hypothetical” conflict with China over Taiwan and won’t make any advance commitment, the defence industry minister, Pat Conroy, has said, amid reports Washington is seeking such promises in discussions over the Aukus submarines. Conroy called on China to be more transparent about its military buildup, but said any commitment to war would be the sole power of the Australian government of the day. It came after multiple reports this week that the Pentagon was seeking guarantees from Australia and other allies…