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Obama’a healthcare legacy
Lesley Russell
12 February 2024
The Affordable Care Act really is a big deal — but is it a winner for Joe Biden?
International
Lost in the post
Peter Mares
12 February 2024
Britain’s Post Office scandal, kept alive by dogged journalism and a new drama series, still has a long way to run
International
Ashes to ashes
Rodney Tiffen
9 February 2024
Will burgeoning cricket franchises kill the institutions they rely on?
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“Never again”?
Klaus Neumann
6 February 2024
What’s behind the biggest protests in recent German history?
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The feckless four
Nic Maclellan
2 February 2024
What do governments led by Rishi Sunak, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Kim Jong-un have in common?
International
March of folly
Tony Walker
28 January 2024
The carnage in Israel and Gaza can’t be understood without tracing the realignments sparked by America’s war in Iraq
International
Open season
Hamish McDonald
27 January 2024
Political opportunism seems set to follow the looting in Port Moresby
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Tuvalu’s Taiwan question
Jess Marinaccio and Graeme Smith
26 January 2024
Will this week’s election bring a change of orientation for the island nation?
International
Maritime mathematics
John Quiggin
24 January 2024
“Keeping the sea lanes open” comes with rarely considered opportunity costs
International
The call of history
Antonia Finnane
8 January 2024
Could Taiwan’s 13 January election trigger a war with China?
International
Changing atmosphere
Ruth Morgan
15 December 2023
The new treaty between Australia and Tuvalu fits in a long history of regional initiatives
International
The beginning of the end
Michael Jacobs
14 December 2023
The COP28 agreement has the potential to fuel a virtuous circle of policy, innovation and scale
International
A turning point for Gaza?
Tony Walker
13 December 2023
This week’s vote could be one of the General Assembly’s more momentous
International
Hot air, cold reality, warm feelings
Michael Jacobs
9 December 2023
At COP28 our correspondent probes a PR blitz for signs of genuine progress
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Delicately dancing Democrats
Lesley Russell
8 December 2023
Looking ahead to 2028 but with half an eye on 2024, presidential hopefuls are positioning themselves for a run
International
Big deal in Dubai
Michael Jacobs
1 December 2023
UAE deal-maker Ahmed Al Jaber has kicked off this year’s climate talks with a historic coup
International
Taiwan’s cat warrior to the rescue?
Antonia Finnane
24 November 2023
Hsiao Bi-khim’s impressive record might help save Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party from electoral defeat
International
Rolling with the waves
Hamish McDonald
24 November 2023
The Solomon Islands prime minister has played off China and the West remarkably well
International
Preserving nuclear memories
Nic Maclellan
20 November 2023
A lawyer in the Marshall Islands, a former US national archivist and a Catalan museum director came together to protect vital archives
International
The day after
Tony Walker
17 November 2023
What might a postwar scenario look like in Israel and Palestine?
International
Neither Democrats nor democrats
Lesley Russell
7 November 2023
The Republican Party might not be American democracy’s only enemy, but it’s the biggest
International
Rodrigo Duterte’s legacy
Margaret Simons
1 November 2023
Continued killings suggest that the violence unleashed by the former Philippines president has become endemic
International
How Israel’s deterrence policy came undone
Lawrence Freedman
1 November 2023
And what it means for Gaza’s future
International
Scaling the Great Wall
Mark Baker
30 October 2023
Anthony Albanese’s visit to China late this week comes almost exactly fifty years after Gough Whitlam’s pioneering trip
International
Flying too close to the son?
Liam Gammon
27 October 2023
Despite potential pitfalls, the Indonesian president seems set on creating a new political dynasty
International
While the world looks elsewhere, Myanmar’s civil war grinds on
Adam Simpson & Nicholas Farrelly
25 October 2023
Preoccupied with other conflicts, the democratic world is passing up the chance to shift the dynamics in Myanmar
International
Netanyahu’s war
Peter Rodgers
19 October 2023
Hamas’s appalling attack has exposed a government with no plan for resolving its country’s greatest challenges
International
NZ’s back-to-the-future election
Jennifer Curtin
18 October 2023
Saturday’s result looks like a return to pre-Ardern, pre-Covid politics
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Taiwan’s double jeopardy
Antonia Finnane
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment
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Entangled histories
Antonia Finnane
28 September 2023
A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
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