Natalie Brown

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Benedict Brook |Natalie Brown |Alex Blair

President Donald Trump is sticking to his tariff guns, shutting down “fake news” reports Washington would delay their enforcement for 90 days to allow for negotiations with other countries. “We’re not looking into that. We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us,” Mr Trump said. He also said the US would slap a further 50 per cent tariffs on China after Beijing announced reciprocal tariffs of 34 per cent on America.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Natalie Brown |Alex Blair

Donald Trump had a brutal response to countries whose economies are already being ravaged by his “reciprocal” tariffs, as he hit back at accusations that he’s intentionally trying to crash the stock market. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” the US President told reporters aboard Air Force One.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Samantha Maiden |Natalie Brown

Peter Dutton has been forced to dump his candidate for the NSW seat of Whitlam after it emerged he had once claimed the Defence Force “need to remove females from combat corps” in order to “fix” our military. News.com.au revealed last week that in a series of fringe podcast interviews before his December preselection for the NSW seat of Whitlam, Benjamin Britton blamed “diversity and equity quotas, Marxist ideology and woke ideologies” for weakening Australia’s defence.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung |Natalie Brown |Samantha Maiden

An economic bloodbath is unfolding around the world after Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariff move — but it could impact your mortagage in a surprising way. Almost $60 billion has been wiped off the Australian stock markets in just one hour this morning and Asian markets are facing a similiar hammering. Investors are in shock as Mr Trump’s tariffs are higher than many were expecting. And there is still more sectoral tariffs to come, including on pharmaceuticals.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Natalie Brown

Disturbing footage has shown teenage boys brawling as part of a toilet block “fight club” at a $12,000-a-year Adelaide private school. In the videos, obtained by The Advertiser, the Pedare Christian College students can be heard yelling “get him” and “oh sh*t” as two boys lunge, throw punches at and kick each other in front of a urinal. While in another, one boy urges others to “make sure no one’s coming” before their fighting begins.