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
Essays & reportage
14 September 2024
Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days
Essays & reportage
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
National affairs
23 August 2024
Rather than American or Chinese ascendancy in Asia, we’re likely to be facing a “long in-between.” Where does that leave AUKUS?
Books & arts
11 July 2024
A nation with its own continent looks at the world via geography and culture
Books & arts
3 July 2024
Australia is sleepwalking into a strategic and logistical mess
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
National affairs
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift
National affairs
15 February 2024
Yang Hengjun’s sentencing shows a Chinese security apparatus largely oblivious to foreign relations concerns
National affairs
27 January 2024
How the government can build on what’s been a good month
International
27 January 2024
Political opportunism seems set to follow the looting in Port Moresby
International
30 October 2023
Anthony Albanese’s visit to China late this week comes almost exactly fifty years after Gough Whitlam’s pioneering trip
National affairs
24 October 2023
… and other encounters with Bill Hayden, foreign minister 1983–88
Correspondents
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment
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
Books & arts
25 September 2023
An Iraqi journalist traces the creation of “one of the most corrupt nations on earth”
Essays & reportage
4 September 2023
With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance
National affairs
27 June 2023
Signs suggest the warming of Australia–China relations has slowed to a glacial pace
National affairs
4 May 2023
The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled
Books & arts
3 April 2023
Australia’s impassioned worries about China are in tension with better relations in the Pacific
International
31 March 2023
Let’s start with the good news about Australia–India relations
National affairs
19 January 2023
Of all Scott Morrison’s poorly conceived initiatives, why has Labor stuck with AUKUS and its nuclear-powered submarines?
Essays & reportage
1 November 2022
Penny Wong wants an Australia that’s more than just a supporting player in the grand drama of global geopolitics
Books & arts
20 October 2022
Did Beijing set out to mislead the West about its intentions — and did it succeed?
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
26 October 2021
How a boy from the bush was seduced by the Asian giant