Jennifer Hewett

1 week ago | afr.com | Jennifer Hewett

Apr 21, 2025 – 3.16pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. Anthony Albanese insists there’s “no complacency” in the Labor camp, arguing there is still a long way to go even as early voting begins on Tuesday. Loading... Jennifer Hewett is the national affairs columnist.

1 week ago | afr.com | Jennifer Hewett

The largesse being showered on Australian voters by Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton puts the Easter bunny to shame. Even America’s boaster-in-chief, Donald Trump, concedes his tariffs may create some “short-term pain” for US consumers before the economy surges back GREATER and BETTER than ever before. Loading...

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jennifer Hewett

Apr 14, 2025 – 4.05pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? China’s latest move to counter Donald Trump’s chaotic trade war is to increase restrictions on the supply of key rare earths and high-performance rare earth magnets crucial to US manufacturing, electronics and defence industries.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jennifer Hewett

Apr 13, 2025 – 4.41pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. Forget Donald Trump – at least for the simultaneous campaign launches in Australia. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton want to use their official election kickoffs to get disgruntled voters to pay more attention to them. Loading...

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Jennifer Hewett

Liberal campaign signs spread throughout Perth’s wealthy western suburbs declare the need to “make Curtin matter”. The party desperately wants a Liberal MP back in what was once the safest of its heartland seats. The equally numerous adjacent signs focus on teal MP Kate Chaney’s appeal with the tagline, “independent, balanced, accountable.”They all add up to a much bigger sign: how hard Western Australia turned against the Liberals at the last federal election.