Mark Carney
- Analysis
- Foreign relations
A political rock star comes to Canberra. Did he match the hype?
The Canadian prime minister set the foreign policy world alight with a speech early this year. He arrived in Australia on a mission to show that middle powers matter.
- Matthew Knott
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- International affairs
Carney: Australia and Canada must ‘combine for strength’ or face domination
The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue “greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.
- Matthew Knott
‘The world needs us’: Carney pushes Australia and Canada to deepen trade, defence ties
Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other’s facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
- Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
‘Frightening’: Labor luminary hits out at Australian support for Iran strikes
The former foreign minister’s comments came after opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie said he was comfortable with the US demonstrating its strength as a deterrence to adversarial nations.
- Matthew Knott and Nick Newling
- Opinion
- International affairs
O Canada, O Albanese: This middle power roars as Australia’s exemplar
Prime Minister Mark Carney, who visits Australia this week, dares to project his nation as an important player in global politics. Australia must do the same.
- George Brandis
‘Completely lost the plot’: Why has a bridge got Trump so angry?
The US president’s war of words with the Canadian government has edged up a notch, thanks to a project meant to help Americans.
- Joey Cappelletti and Seung Min Kim
- Opinion
- Trade wars
The ‘mother of all deals’ that will infuriate Trump
After two decades of negotiations, the European Union and India have reached an agreement that risks the ire of the US president. He has no one to blame but himself.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- US politics
Why Trump just proved Mark Carney’s point
Canada’s prime minister stood up to the US president. Trump’s response tells us that Carney’s remarks struck a nerve.
- Ezra Klein
Inequality, not immigration, behind cost-of-living crisis
Negative gearing and franking credits are more to blame for high house prices.
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump is in decay and it affects the whole world, including us
If our PM declines to spend $US1 billion to join the Board of Peace, will Trump punish Australia?
- Bruce Wolpe