Renewables surge shows Australia can meet ambitious 2035 reductions

Renewables surge shows Australia can meet ambitious 2035 reductions

The UK has promised to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. The Climate Change Authority is considering how much more we could do.

  • byBianca Hall andNick O'Malley

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I’m beginning to think MAGA doesn’t mean what Trump thinks

I’m beginning to think MAGA doesn’t mean what Trump thinks

Somewhat ironically,the issue of whether age should preclude Trump and Biden from seeking the top job is the only one on which the two men are united.

  • byMichelle Cazzulino
G7 leaders back ‘Olympic truce’ for wars in Ukraine,Middle East

G7 leaders back ‘Olympic truce’ for wars in Ukraine,Middle East

Leader of the G7 urged “all countries to observe the Olympic Truce individually and collectively” in support of a French proposal to temporarily halt conflicts around the world during the Games.

  • byRob Harris
Named and shamed:The West just turned up the heat on China and Russia
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Named and shamed:The West just turned up the heat on China and Russia

It was an eventful meeting of some of the world’s leading finance ministers at a resort town in Italy.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
World scrambles to control ‘the most consequential technology of our time’
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World scrambles to control ‘the most consequential technology of our time’

There has been a flurry of activity this week as the US,Europe and the Group of Seven economies scramble to regulate the rapidly evolving AI sector.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
The G7 minutes make grim reading for China and Russia
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The G7 minutes make grim reading for China and Russia

The world’s seven most industrialised countries have sent both Russia and China a clear message of their solidarity and resolve.

  • byLavina Lee
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Zelensky is becoming the statesman of our times

Zelensky is becoming the statesman of our times

If the president leads Ukraine to victory,there will be statues of him in Europe. If he loses,all of it will be for nothing.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Zelensky makes impassioned plea for arms at G7 after bombing of Bakhmut

Zelensky makes impassioned plea for arms at G7 after bombing of Bakhmut

The Ukrainian president compared Bakhmut’s “total destruction” to the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the nuclear strike of 1945.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Why the four countries most focused on containing China have stopped mentioning it

Why the four countries most focused on containing China have stopped mentioning it

The world’s seven richest countries devoted an entire section of a summit to China. The group set up to contain the country’s rise didn’t mention it once.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Albanese ‘to travel to China’ but opposition warns trade sanctions should be lifted first

Albanese ‘to travel to China’ but opposition warns trade sanctions should be lifted first

In a new sign of thawing tensions,the PM says he will push ahead with a trip to Beijing,but the Coalition is demanding “absolute clarity” on the removal of trade barriers.

  • byEryk Bagshaw,Matthew Knott andFarrah Tomazin
‘Ours must not be an era of war’:Quad leaders pledge investment in Asia Pacific

‘Ours must not be an era of war’:Quad leaders pledge investment in Asia Pacific

In a 3000-word statement that did not mention China,the four leaders aimed to blunt Beijing’s growing influence in the region.

  • byEryk Bagshaw