US election 2024
Coverage of the 2024 US presidential election.
Voters will judge Anthony Albanese and Kamala Harris within nine months. They’re both clinging to the centre ground as politics around them fractures.
The dominant theme on the final night of the Democratic National Convention was the precarious coalition that Harris must forge to defeat Donald Trump.
The Democratic National Convention has started as Kamala Harris shifts the polls away from Donald Trump. The ultimate result will have implications for Canberra.
Arthur Sinodinos, who served as Australia's ambassador to the US from 2020 to 2023, says Kamala Harris is best placed to hit Trump on his biggest vulnerability.
The Albanese government is dodging and weaving about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency, and his criminal convictions, mean for relations with the US.
The growing momentum of the former president's campaign is prompting senior figures in the Albanese government to ponder the ramifications of a second Donald Trump presidency.
