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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Andy Park |Kamin Gock
From a fiery, public spat in the White House, to fresh ink on the dotted line, US/Ukraine negotiations over what the next phase of their wartime relationship has had it all. Now, the two nations have signed a long-awaited deal to establish an investment fund to finance Ukraine's reconstruction, hingeing on access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan |Kamin Gock |Lauren Day |Carrington Clarke
April 29 marks day 100 of Donald Trump's extraordinarily eventful second term as US president. Here's some of what you might have missed. One of Trump's first Oval Office orders was to release supporters who'd been jailed over the US Capitol riot of January 6, 2021. Trump told prison authorities to pardon almost 1,500 people, and commute the sentences of 14 others so they could be freed straight away. Trump said they'd been treated unfairly compared to other criminals.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock |Bradley McLennan
Two weeks ago, Harvard student journalists Saketh Sundar and Avani Rai were sitting in the newsroom complaining they didn't have enough stories to write. Now the 19-year-olds are working overtime for student newspaper The Harvard Crimson to cover the escalating fight between America's oldest and richest institution and the most powerful man in the world. "It's been a wild ride," Avani said. "In the past couple of weeks, everything kind of flipped on its head.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock |Carrington Clarke
Rick Huether's family business has survived a world war, the Cold War, the global financial crisis and COVID-19. Now, the can manufacturer is working out how to navigate his 96-year-old company through Donald Trump's trade war. "I wake up at three or four o'clock in the morning and start trying to solve problems in my brain," Rick says. "It's very stressful.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock
US President Donald Trump is set to announce plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on major trading partners that charge tax on US imports. It comes hours before the US President is due to welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for talks at the White House.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock
Caller: You're a monster, you're disgusting. Every time you look in the mirror, just stop and think: I really should not be doing this, this is wrong. Allan Lawn recorded this conversation when he started to feel threatened. He answered the phone call from an unknown number after seven missed calls. A week earlier Mr Lawn had left a negative review on productreview.com.au about a business called Space Haven.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock |Paul Johnson
Imagine jumping off a 10-metre platform and plunging into water faster than a car can go in a school zone. Now double it. This is what eight-time cliff diving world champion Rhiannan Iffland has done hundreds of times. The Australian made her debut in the cliff diving series in 2016 and has dominated the extreme sport, where she leaps from 21 metres above the water before hitting it at speeds of 85 kilometres an hour. "It's daunting. It's scary every single time," Iffland told 7.30.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock
Where the dingo fence divides three states, the sun is harsh and wild dust storms are just a gust away, hundreds of new residents are settling into the desert. But it's not people who have recently moved to the far north-west corner of New South Wales. Instead, it's an influx of native animals that have been locally extinct for more than a century.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock
The main coffee tree grown in Australia, introduced from Kenya in the 1980s, grows too tall for it to be easily harvested. Scientists have identified three new coffee trees from Central and South America which are smaller and easier to farm. It is hoped the new varieties of coffee tree will encourage the Australian industry to grow. Coffee is an Australian obsession. Six billion cups of it are consumed every year.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kamin Gock
Warning: This story contains serious details of child abuse. Sally* was three years old when the Department of Community Services (DoCS) was notified she had been sexually abused, leaving her with vaginal trauma. The report was investigated by a caseworker. The report outcome: "Confirmed, referred, closed."This was just one of 56 'risk of significant harm' notifications DoCS received from the time she was a baby, and before she was removed from her home at 13.
