Emma Connors

Sydney

Journalist at Australian Financial Review

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Trump killed America’s aid program. It’s catching on

1 month ago | afr.com | Emma Connors

Mar 14, 2025 – 11.11am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In his office at Texas A&M University, Andrew Natsios is an angry man. Before he joined academia, Natsios spent five years in charge at the US Agency for International Development, which Elon Musk this year described as a “criminal organisation”.
How the gender divide that Donald Trump tapped into is playing out in Australia

Nov 21, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

Nov 22, 2024 – 3.21pm or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Australians have watched in fascination as a populism wave crashed across the democracies we most identify with in recent years, starting with the Brexit vote and culminating in Donald Trump’s emphatic victory in this year’s White House race.
Why Donald Trump’s win unnerved women everywhere

Nov 7, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

WorldNorth AmericaUS Votes 2024The battle over abortion didn’t play out as the Democrats hoped, while Donald Trump succeeded in tapping into a much more pronounced gender divide. Supporters of Kamala Harris weep as the vice president concedes defeat. While young women did turn out for Harris, there were not enough to turn the tide.
Abortion debate in Queensland, South Australia worries activists who fought for decriminalisation

Oct 23, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade more than two years ago, advocates for a women’s right to choose feared the same conservative backlash would reach Australia. The battle is now on – or rather back on, with activists rallying to protect the rights to legal abortion won years ago. “After abortions were decriminalised in Queensland in 2018, our focus shifted to access.
Why Australia’s think tanks are a growing source of covert power

Sep 25, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

PoliticsFederalThese research and advocacy institutes are a growing source of influence and give public servants who can’t agitate themselves plausible deniability. From the upcoming Power issue out on September 27. Sep 26, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? We hear a lot about what think tanks think.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, funding and the Peter Varghese review

Aug 1, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

“Four million dollars isn’t even a rounding error for the federal government, but for a think tank this form of funding – guaranteed and recurring – is a superpower,” said one insider. The opposition has warned the government against cutting ASPI funding, but some other think tanks have welcomed the review, arguing the current arrangement has given ASPI a “mega think tank” advantage.
Me, my niece and a generational shift in thinking about babies

Jul 11, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

I was 25 when my niece was born. Five years later, I had a baby of my own. This was the mid-1990s. There was no universal maternity leave in Australia. My niece’s mother, my sister, urged me to get a government job because they “were good for parents”. Now that niece is 32, and she and her husband have a baby daughter of their own. She’s just gone back to full-time work in the financial services industry.
Me, my niece and a generational shift in thinking about babies

Jul 11, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

Is this a bad thing? Governments concerned about paying pensions in the future are worried about falling fertility rates because it will mean fewer taxpayers supporting an increasingly ageing population. Few people factor in this dependency ratio when thinking about families. But we are seeing calm, methodical consideration by mothers-to-be and their partners about how they will balance work and children. And this careful planning will also, I can’t help but think, work in the national interest.
Why Israel doesn’t care what the world thinks

Jun 20, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

WorldMiddle EastIsraeli-Palestinian conflictThe international community thinks Tel Aviv is fighting a war of choice. Israelis doesn’t see it that way, says US writer and author Bret Stephens. Jun 21, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
The UN Gaza peace proposal explained

Jun 12, 2024 | afr.com | Emma Connors

How would the UN peace plan work? UN Resolution 2735 adopted on Monday (Tuesday AEST) sets out a three-stage approach to end the war in Gaza, where more than one million Palestinians face “catastrophic levels of food insecurity” and about 1.7 million people have been displaced. The Albanese government supports the plan.