The Latest Breaking News from Peter Hartcher

Former Survivor winner and Liberal candidate for the Perth seat of Tangney Mark Wales has written a novel featuring a Chinese invasion of Australia. How will Chinese-Australian voters react?

The PM isn’t Abbott, a Xi Jinping fan, or Morrison, who poked the panda. Instead he’s created a framework for China to re-engage with Australia.

Nine’s alarmist ‘Red Alert’ series claims to forewarn readers about war with China. Instead, it provides a lot of ‘khaki hyperbole’.

Former prime minister Paul Keating has unleashed on the Nine newspapers over their coverage of the threat posed by China.

The NSW Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party leader made a bad error targeting the NSW premier over his Nazi uniform stunt. It could be fatal.

Do journalists deliberately mistranslate statements or are they just ignorant as they continue the Chinese ‘threat’ narrative?

Good morning, early birds. The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to increase the interest rate today, and Defence Minister Richard Marles says it is unlikely that Australia will be able to build any nuclear submarines by 2038. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

Why is an utterly false and ignorant piece by Hartcher still up on Nine’s website? Have they stopped caring about facts?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is labelled out of touch on issues ranging from women to housing on an episode of Q+A where his promise to change if he again wins government is heavily maligned.