Yesterday
Former JPMorgan banker launches $157m AUKUS fund
Technology start-ups in defence are capitalising on heightened geopolitical tensions, and fund managers are jumping in.
- Matthew Cranston
This Month
President’s plea not to forget about Ukraine amid Middle East horror
Lithuania’s Gitanas Nausėda says the West cannot afford war fatigue as Russia continues its fight against Ukraine.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This investment giant says you’re underplaying two risks
The CEO of a $489 billion pension giant says investors don’t pay enough attention to stagflation and geopolitics. In a complicated world, “Australia stands out” for investors.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Ukraine uses powerful US-supplied missiles for first time
The decision to send the missiles represented a shift by the Biden administration at a time when the Ukrainian military is struggling in a counteroffensive.
- Lara Jakes, Marc Santora, Constant Méheut and David Sanger
- Analysis
- China relations
Investors have ‘nowhere left to hide’ from global shocks
The Israel-Hamas conflict adds to the growing list of geopolitical risks facing investors and companies globally, but are they awake to the world’s problems?
- Michael Smith
The risks Australian executives aren’t preparing for
Company leaders and board directors are confident they understand their supply chains, but they have not considered a range of key risks.
- Max Mason
Israel vows to wipe Hamas ‘off the face of the earth’
The Israeli military discusses targets; terrible new reports of children’s deaths; antisemitic charges heard in Sydney court. Here’s how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Emma Connors
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
As evil goes global, so must we
The world’s most odious regimes are supporting Hamas. Democracies should enable Ukraine to deliver a knockout blow against global authoritarianism.
- Misha Zelinsky
Zelensky gets more weapons at NATO, despite fears of eclipse by Israel
During a surprise appearance at a Brussels summit, the Ukrainian president made common cause with Israel, and got what he came for.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Putin’s new theory for Prigozhin plane crash: cocaine and grenades
The Russian president claims grenade fragments were found in the bodies of those killed in the crash of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane.
- Anton Troianovski
Zelensky begs for help as ‘horrifying’ Russian strike kills 51
More than 50 civilians,including children, were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a village in the north-eastern Kharkiv region.
- Hanna Arhirova
How China is reining in Ukraine’s war of drones
The world’s largest manufacturer of the aircraft is making it harder for Ukraine to access the key battlefield tech.
- Paul Mozur and Valerie Hopkins
- Opinion
- Opinion
America turns against Ukraine before election
The ousting of Kevin McCarthy as Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives is bad news for Ukraine.
- Updated
- Edward Luce
- Exclusive
- Richard Marles
Ukraine seeks more Slinger drones in reshaped Australian war plan
Kyiv’s ambassador will ask the Albanese government to buy weapons directly from Australian arms manufacturers amid fears of waning support for the war against Russia.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- US politics
This is why Matt Gaetz just blew up Congress
The hardliner likes to portray himself as one of the last Republicans standing who cares about out-of-control government spending and the resulting build-up of sovereign debt.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Western alliance
Defence the elephant in the room for PM’s US visit
Anthony Albanese will be feted when he heads to the US, but White House hard heads may be wondering about the seriousness of Australia’s defence commitments.
- James Curran
Russia stages evacuation drills to prepare for ‘nuclear ultimatum’
Extensive drills of Russia’s civilian response to a nuclear attack, and calls from top pundits to test a bomb, have again raised the rhetorical temperature.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Biden pleads with Congress not to end US support for Ukraine
America has provided more than $175.7 billion to the war-torn country in the face of Russia’s invasion.
- David Millward
Raging fires in Victoria’s east as south-east swelters
Southeastern Australia is set to swelter in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires; the government will crack down on sham enrolments in university courses; NZ PM forced to isolate with COVID-19 in blow to campaign. See how the day unfolded.
- Updated
- Andrew Hobbs
September
Drone strikes and sea attacks: Why Ukraine has a new battle plan
As progress remains painfully slow and costly along the war’s 2500-kilometre frontline, this protean conflict is shifting shape yet again.
- Hans van Leeuwen
