Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
Rob Harris is Europe correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID
Johnson introduced the contentious new laws that mandate photo ID when voting while he was PM despite railing against the idea when he was a newspaper columnist in 2004.
- by Rob Harris
Europe must prepare to send troops to defend Ukraine, Macron says
The French president told The Economist that governments will need to act if Vladimir Putin makes a significant breakthrough in the coming months.
- by Rob Harris
Kremlin displays Australian-made Bushmasters as ‘trophies’ in Moscow
The propaganda exercise comes ahead of a May 9 military parade to commemorate the end of WWII, which has become a homage to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- by Rob Harris
Australia vows to support Ukraine until war ends – and only on Kyiv’s terms
A visit by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Males – the first by a member of the Albanese government for almost two years – coincided with another fierce round of Russian airstrikes.
- by Rob Harris
Australia announces further funding for Ukraine’s fight, passing $1b in total
Defence Minister Richard Marles was in Lviv on Saturday, becoming just the second federal government minister to visit Ukraine since the war started.
- by Rob Harris
King Charles III, recovering well from cancer, to return to work
The monarch will return to full duties in coming days, as Buckingham Palace moves to reassure the public amid a horror start to the year for the royal family.
- by Rob Harris
The tide has turned decisively against Ukraine, can US help keep it in the fight?
US President Joe Biden signed off another billion-dollar assistance package just as the tide was turning against the Ukrainians on the battlefield.
- by Rob Harris
Analysis
UK politics
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
- by Rob Harris
Updated
Animals
Military horses, one blood-stained, run loose through central London
A group of horses bolted and threw their riders while on their daily morning exercise in central London, leaving several people injured.
- by Rob Harris
‘First point of contact’: After more than 250 years, Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook to return home
The Gweagal spears were taken in 1770 when the Endeavour arrived at Botany Bay in the first meeting between the British and the Indigenous Gweagal people of Kamay.
- by Rob Harris