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Senior journalist covering aviation @theage @smh / former digital foreign editor / Dark Shining Moment podcast
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MAGA Melts Down Over Democrat’s Rousing Call to Fight Trump newrepublic.com/post/194483/...

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won Canada’s federal election. (AP)

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Trump brand having its effect…In Australian election race, Trump 'chaos' is making a conservative vote risky - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Starlink is not just a source for eventual funding of Starship but a tool to legitimise Musk’s vision of politics in space. Under its T&Cs, everyone who signs up for Starlink agrees to recognise “no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities”.

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The group chats that changed America - their influence flows through X, Substack, and podcasts, and constitutes a kind of dark matter of American politics and media...(I was wondering who controlled the discourse) www.semafor.com/arti... quite the read from @semaforben

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Utopia or extinction: The space visions driving the billionaires www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Big changes at #SXSW — Longtime president Hugh Forrest is out. He was certainly a link to the early concept, spirit of the organisation www.austinchronicle.com/daily/sxsw/2...

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They came to bury a pope, but ended up negotiating to end a war www.smh.com.au/world...

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Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty as US seeks death penalty www.smh.com.au/world...

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How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Youngest cardinal calls for peace, justice in Ukraine as Church bids farewell to Pope Francis www.smh.com.au/world...

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The real question for China is: why are all of Trump's closest advisers, who will bend over backwards to accommodate Russia, so anti-China? Seems that Russia is doublecrossing China when it comes to its influence on the US...Something for Xi to bring up with Vlad.

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What supersonic travel on the Concorde looked like in 1987. Source: Heritage Concorde FB page.

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The untold story of the last Australian plane out of Saigon www.smh.com.au/world... #AnzacDay2025

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It's worth remembering that Trump in his first term launched cruise missiles at Bashar al-Assad amid reports he had attacked his own people. www.defense.gov/News...

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"Vladimir, STOP!"

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Trump urges Putin to 'STOP!' after a deadly attack on Kyiv: AP

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Heard the resistance movement against Trump was dead? You’ve been reading too much. wapo.st/4jgk2Tn?utm_...

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Musk said on Tesla's earnings call that "my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly" likely starting in May, declaring the effort "mostly done." (Axios)

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Qantas stepped in to provide needed blankets, mats and sleeping bags for the Virgin Australia passengers. www.smh.com.au/busin...

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‘100 people slept on carpet’: Virgin passengers spend Easter in Queenstown after delay, cancellation www.smh.com.au/busin...

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“He still was a voice — a moral voice, moral in the sense that he stood up for peace and justice and the dignity of people...And I wondered: Who can be that voice now?” www.washingtonpost.c...

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When the Nazis hanged a theologian at Easter www.smh.com.au/lifes...

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#Breaking Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, dies aged 88 www.smh.com.au/world...

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The supersonic start-up that could disrupt aviation with a faster, cheaper-to-develop plane www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Faster, higher, sleeker…cheaper to develop? www.theage.com.au/business/com...

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Image of China’s space station taken from space.

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‘Adapt or die’: How tech disrupted Generation X careers www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Flying to Asia? Australians become spoilt for airline choice www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Boeing jet returns to US from China amid tariff war www.smh.com.au/busin...

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To take the most notorious example, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unleashed economic warfare against Japan to induce better behavior from Tokyo (ironically, he wanted to punish Japan’s aggression against China). -- Trump’s China tariffs showdown makes war likelier www.washingtonexamin...

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Australians shun US travel as Trump sparks confusion, then backlash www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Trump effect in action in Australian election. — like in Canada.

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"In some posts espousing a libertarian bent ... " Suspect in Arson at Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion Had Troubled Past www.nytimes.com/2025...

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The power of propaganda. And for those outside the US waiting for the Republican base to finally see the error of their ways: it's not going to happen. Because the power of propaganda. This is a force strengthening since before Trump - and it's only more hardwired, and desperate now.

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Trump to exclude electronics such as smartphones and laptops from tariff list www.smh.com.au/world...

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American conservatives take heed: Vladimir Putin has nothing but contempt for our conception of liberty and “don’t tread on me” approach to government. In Putin’s world, the government treads heavily and cruelly. He’s not one of us; he’s the opposite of us. www.thecipherbrief.c...

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Friday read: How premium economy became the hottest real estate in the air www.smh.com.au/busin...

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Virgin Australia to refund 61,000 customers for pricing error on ticket changes www.theage.com.au/bu...

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“These measures -- revealing the isolationist and coercive nature of U.S. conduct -- run counter to the principles of the market economy and multilateralism” english.news.cn/20250409/745...

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‘It all has to change’: Trump escalates trade war with new tariff threat for China www.smh.com.au/world...

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What part of this is not "¡Hasta la revolución!"?

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