Essays & reportage
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Correspondents
20 September 2024
An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem
Books & arts
19 September 2024
The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship
The view from elsewhere
13 September 2024
Myths about the collapse of the Soviet Union are encouraging mistaken policies towards China
International
10 April 2024
Pressure is mounting among Israel’s allies for a long-term settlement
Books & arts
9 April 2024
How Vladimir Putin’s empire dream became Ukraine’s war and an international nightmare
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
28 March 2024
An eighty-year retrospective from the American academic who changed the way nations attract and argue
National affairs
21 March 2024
Both countries got what they wanted out of Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra
Books & arts
21 March 2024
How a former Jehovah’s Witness activist became a secret intermediary between the Indonesian leader and the West
From the archive
1 December 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Essays & reportage
5 October 2023
While the French president risks a new civil war just three hours’ flight from Australia, Canberra’s diplomacy remains muted
Correspondents
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
National affairs
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
Correspondents
14 March 2023
Our correspondent casts a critical eye over an emerging German peace movement
Books & arts
21 February 2023
The real-world backdrop of Frank Moorhouse’s celebrated trilogy was alive with idealistic characters
Books & arts
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & arts
5 September 2021
Are China’s wolf warrior diplomats for real?
International
27 August 2021
Yesterday’s bombings in Kabul underline the choices facing Western countries
National affairs
9 February 2021
A new president in the White House means a new American ambassador in Canberra
National affairs
2 July 2020
The launch of two new defence reports highlights the government’s preoccupation with military force and the American alliance
National affairs
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India
Essays & reportage
8 February 2018
Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Books & arts
29 March 2017
Books | A former journalist and diplomat offers a double-jointed view of Australia’s international role