With the eyes of the world watching – and many for the first time since the campaign began in earnest – America’s oldest-ever president failed to meet the moment.
The debate betrayed little if any confidence that Biden can or will defeat Trump. If Biden remains in the race,only Trump can defeat Trump.
What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.
Australia has already dealt with a Trump presidency — but what could it look like the second time around?
The problem facing Australia’s foreign policy under another Donald Trump presidency? Many of his utterances seem shaped by 1950s American daytime games shows.
The Bad Feminist author,who will appear in Melbourne and Sydney later this year,on progress for women,Trump and being recognised in public.
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.
Donald Trump has been playing the victim since his bombshell conviction,and if my family straw poll is indicative,it’s an effective strategy.
A faction in Kooyong has started to agitate for Mr Josh Frydenberg to be the Liberal candidate in this seat. The current selected candidate,Amelia Hamer,won the right to be the candidate with a large majority vote nine weeks ago. Will we next hear that she has “generously” stepped aside for Mr Frydenberg? Being a woman,she must know what action is expected of her.
In Peter Hartcher’s incisive article about Donald Trump he explains why Trump is likely to win;“America no longer offers a dream to ordinary working people”. The same can probably be said for Australia. Labor has deserted its traditional base;“ordinary working people” who have borne the brunt of higher interest rates and the general cost of living.
Trump’s conviction was the third and heaviest blow he has been dealt in New York – a series of challenges to his ego,his bottom line,and now,perhaps,his freedom.