Geopolitics

A US–Australia critical minerals push is drawing American capital to ASX rare earths, from takeover bids to export finance talks.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Davos today the rules-based international order is dead. Australia is still clinging to the hope it just needs a tune-up.

CEO Michael Biercuk says Q-CTRL has addressed aviation's GPS jamming crisis with quantum sensors, while predicting quantum computers will achieve commercial viability by 2028.

Sussan Ley’s push for a strong legislative response to the Bondi terror attack is colliding with the Coalition's deep instincts on free speech.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation may be surging in the polls, but it still faces many of the same structural and personality hurdles that have long held it back.

A criminal probe into US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is the latest marker of a Trump presidency defined by disruption — and a world trying to adapt to it.

The Trump administration's Greenland ambitions may be fuelled by its drive for AI supremacy as much as by the lure of rare earth riches and Arctic influence.

The year hasn't started quietly, with a royal commission backflip, a One Nation polling jolt, Trump tremors, BlueScope drama and the onward march of AI all packing the calendar early.

A new poll, conducted exclusively for Capital Brief, puts One Nation level with the Coalition, squeezing Sussan Ley as she plans an immigration stance that won’t lose the centre or the right.