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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist.

That was then: US President Donald Trump endorsed the AUKUS deal when he hosted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House in October last year.

I’m ashamed Albanese ever backed Trump’s feckless war. At least we’ll send no ships

The US president is furious with Australia and other allies for not sending military support to the Strait of Hormuz, but this is a mess of his own making.

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I covered the Middle East when Saddam was America’s friend. The bloodletting hasn’t stopped

Iranians deserve better than the ayatollahs – and they deserve better than an illegal war waged by a felonious, feckless president with no plan for what follows.

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Three years after her husband died, Geraldine Brooks finally confronted her grief

After the novelist’s husband Tony Horwitz died, she did a good approximation of being OK. She was not OK.

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Don’t cry for me, Pennsylvania - my vote doesn’t count. But yours will shape the world

A chasm has opened up in American society during the Trump era. Now the whole world might be altered by a few thousand votes in one swing state.

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Not happy: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Only one man can stop the world plunging into full-scale war

Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity in Israel is at an all-time low. Yet, we are waiting, helplessly, to see what risk he will take next.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Plibersek can save this wonderland, or give it away with the fairies

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek holds the fate of a delicate slice of Tasmania’s wilderness in her hands.

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We bought in Balmain when it was affordable. Rezoning won’t turn back the clock

Careless rezoning will do little to solve Sydney’s housing affordability crisis. But I think I know what will.

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Rupert Murdoch with sons Lachlan and James in 2002.

I spent time with James and Lachlan. Rupert chose the wrong successor

Like his sister Elisabeth, James withdrew himself from the succession. And so now we get Lachlan. For the sake of news, and all of us who consume it, that’s too bad.

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The Voice can’t be silenced by Dutton’s Trumpian tone

Australians voted yes in 1967 because they understood it was the right thing to do. Will 2023’s yes vote be derailed by Trumpian tropes and nonsensical arguments?

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Trump’s noisy revival drowns out sound of change in America

While all the cameras focused on that New York courtroom, significant events were playing out in other parts of the US which suggest Trumpism is on the wane.

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