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Jack Waterford

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Jack Waterford

    Australia is showing some small signs of independence from the US (opens the original)

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    America has been a particularly annoying notional ally and former friend over recent months. But what would be the point of complaining? President Trump has been doing exactly as he promised last year. He is acting only out of America's interests, narrowly defined, and does not give a toss about what allies, notional members of the Western alliance or even foreign heads of state with whom he has any sort of personal relationship think. He is not carefully nurturing alliance relationships or prom

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jack Waterford

    When will Labor learn? You don't beat Pauline Hanson with facts (opens the original)

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    Good policy makes good politics, Paul Keating used to say. The converse is not necessarily true. When the making of policy is subordinated to mere political advantage, good policy suffers, and often so does good politics. Bad policy begets bad outcomes, that usually trump any temporary political advantage. There could hardly be a better example of poor government than the raft of changes to Labor's immigration policies announced by Tony Burke. Burke acted as if he had to solve the problem of One

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Jack Waterford

    Albo, it's only your credibility at stake. But don't be a ScoMo (opens the original)

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    Anthony Albanese has acquired another cross to bear over recent months. It's one that will dog him, the more so for having come up in both One Nation and Coalition party research, and which is now being wired into their scripts. It's the idea that Albanese is a liar. A person whose word and whose promises cannot be relied upon. Who cannot be trusted. Who, caught out will not admit to conscious deception but who will give earnest explanations for why his earlier statements have been superseded by

  4. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Jack Waterford

    These people have no idea how tough people are doing it (opens the original)

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    It's about time that the government stopped telling citizens that it feels and understands their pain. Like all originally empathetic statements that had some meaning when original and sincere, it has become a cliche, and most voters don't believe it anyway. They don't believe that the government knows what is happening in Australian households and they don't think it cares much, except potentially later at the ballot box. Not many of the inner circle are doing it tough. Nor do they believe that

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Jack Waterford

    Secret sandwiches to ASIO raids: my life intertwined with this newspaper (opens the original)

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    Soon after I joined The Canberra Times 54 years ago, as a copyboy, I was taken aside by a senior journalist and allocated a discreet, clandestine and confidential task which created an unlikely alliance with a considerable impact on my career. Frank Cranston, a New Zealander who was a former and future chief of staff, was defence and aviation correspondent, who from time-to-time reported hot gossip from ASIO mates and was bylined "From a special correspondent". He was ferociously right-wing and,

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