George W Bush
- Exit interview
- Australian TV
‘We had death threats’: Looking back at the ABC’s most controversial comedy show
When The Chaser’s War on Everything premiered 20 years ago, it soon became the ABC’s most complained about show.
- Louise Rugendyke
Latest
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
Clandestine night flights dropped billions of genetically modified seeds over poppy fields in a classified mission to disrupt the country’s lucrative opium trade.
- Warren P. Strobel
- Analysis
- Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate Republican insider. He died an outsider
As US vice president, Cheney ensured he held more power than any of his predecessors had. But he spent his later years well outside Donald Trump’s MAGA tent.
- Karen Tumulty
Berlusconi villa that hosted ‘bunga bunga’ parties set for $900m sale
The lavish Sardinian residence of the colourful late Italian PM comes with an artificial volcano and its own secret underground cave.
- Nick Squires
JD Vance went kayaking for his birthday. The Secret Service had the river level raised
Critics blasted the “protective measures” as a sign of the vice president’s entitlement, particularly given the Trump administration’s focus on slashing government spending.
- Julie Carr Smyth
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Trump is running America the way America ran Iraq
The first days of the second Trump term are reminiscent of the disastrous administration George W. Bush put in place after invading Iraq.
- Michelle Goldberg
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness
There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different, for all the wrong reasons.
- Bill Wyman
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
Trump dodged a bullet. Let’s hope the world does, too – and he loses
Never before have so many alarm bells been rung about a Republican candidate by so many conservatives. I hope against hope that Donald Trump is not elected this week.
- George Brandis
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
Many fear Trump will take power with guns. But his real weapon is the gavel
A close US election result might well reproduce the scenes of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. But the Supreme Court, and its habit of overturning norms, could be what helps Trump prevail.
- Maher Mughrabi
Police have given up on fat bikes
In Gwandalan, we have a plethora of unlicensed underage riders, often without helmets, riding noisy, unregistered two-wheeled machines, who even ride at speed on one wheel through the shopping area.