Lucy Slade

Sydney

Breaking News Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Producer/ journalist at @9NewsAUS via @WINNews_TVL and @TheAdvocateTas

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US evacuates diplomats from Israel embassy as conflict intensifies

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade

9 mins ago – 7.11AMThe State Department has begun evacuating nonessential diplomats and their families from the US embassy in Israel as hostilities between Israel and Iran intensify and there is the possibility that the United States could become directly involved in the conflict.
Anthony Albanese spruiks Australia’s virtues as critical minerals source

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Phillip Coorey |Jessica Gardner

Kananaskis| Anthony Albanese has invoked the spectre of China manipulating its stranglehold over the global supply of critical minerals as he spruiked Australia as a reliable and trustworthy alternative. Addressing an energy forum at the Group of Seven summit in Alberta, Canada, the Prime Minister said critical minerals were the new drivers of energy security.
Trump muses about turning G7 into G9 with China

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade

6 mins ago – 7.11AMUS President Donald Trump kicked off his time at the Group of Seven summit on Monday (Tuesday AEST) by suggesting that Russia and maybe even China should be part of the organization. The US leader indicated that he would rather have the G7 become the G8 or possibly even the G9, although Russia and China would notably be authoritarian governments in an organization whose members are democracies.
Defence budget misses ‘crucial opportunity’ to prepare for challenges

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Yolanda Redrup

May 29, 2025 – 7.14am or Subscribe to save article3 mins ago – 7.14AMAustralia ‘risks falling behind’ without defence reformAustralia risks falling behind on current defence spending levels with a major re-armament under way in the Indo-Pacific, a report warns. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute released its analysis of the 2025/26 defence budget on Thursday, claiming defence funding fails to address the seriousness of threats facing the nation.
Canada in danger as Trump threatens annexation: King

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Campbell Kwan

May 28, 2025 – 7.16am or Subscribe to save article4 mins ago – 7.14AMKing Charles says Canada faces unprecedented dangers as Trump threatens annexationKing Charles III said Canada is facing unprecedented challenges in a world that’s never been more dangerous as he opened the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday with a speech widely viewed as a show of support in the face of annexation threats by US President Donald Trump.
Developing nations to pay China $34b as it calls in debts

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Ryan Cropp |Tom Rabe

May 27, 2025 – 7.16am or Subscribe to save article3 mins ago – 7.16AMChina comes calling in debts of developing nationsDeveloping nations, including those in the Pacific, will pay China $34 billion this year as Beijing comes calling for repayments on project funding. China is now “the world’s largest single destination for developing country debt payments” and outstripping the whole of the West, says a new report shows from Australian think tank The Lowy Institute.
Jim Chalmers accused of ‘double standard’ on prime minister’s $300k pension

1 month ago | afr.com | John Kehoe |Lucy Slade

May 26, 2025 – 1.16pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been accused of double standards by allowing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and veteran public officials to delay paying the new superannuation tax until retirement.
Russia, Ukraine complete prisoner swap as Moscow launches aerial assault

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |John Kehoe |Joyce Moullakis |Lucas Baird

May 26, 2025 – 7.17am or Subscribe to save article4 mins ago – 7.15AMRussia and Ukraine complete prisoner swap hours after Moscow launches major aerial assaultRussia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday (Monday AEST), the third and last part of a major exchange that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the more than three years of war.
Deadly NSW floods ongoing as threatening rain moves south

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade

May 23, 2025 – 7.14am or Subscribe to save article2 mins ago – 7.14AMDeadly floods ongoing as threatening rain moves southHeavy rain that fuelled deadly and devastating flooding along Australia’s east coast is moving south, leaving behind flooded communities to deal with a massive mop-up. A slow-moving trough that delivered intense rain will bring further heavy falls to parts of the NSW Hunter region, Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands, extending further south throughout Friday morning.
Sentencing Review: shifting the system

1 month ago | thejusticegap.com | Lucy Slade

The publication of the Sentencing Review today is an official admission that forty years of sentencing policy has been racking up debts that the criminal justice system ultimately couldn’t pay back. Whatever ones views are about the right level of imprisonment in the country, it has been clear to both penal reformer and the ‘flog’em’ stalwart alike that the supply of prison places and the demand for them have been .