While Trump is moving fast and breaking things, Americans wanting to escape should come to Australia | Julianne Schultz

There is a talent pool of brilliant Americans who should be invited to study here, to work in our hospitals, construction sites and research labs

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Move fast and break things was Mark Zuckerberg’s guiding principle, and for many years Facebook’s motto. In the process of dispensing junk food for the mind, his company and others broke the back of institutions, industries and regulations around the world.

Now Donald Trump is demonstrating what happens when this motto becomes the guiding principle of the most powerful office in the world. As old rules are trashed, norms disregarded, scores settled, jobs lost, funding stopped, allies goaded and deals made. No one can know for sure what will happen next.

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17 things Trump and his team did this week

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Trump Media Is Moving Into the Financial Services Industry

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Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?

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Why Trump wants an American sovereign wealth fund

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