National Affairs
20 November 2020
Who is being helped by the continuing pressure on Bernard Collaery and Witness K?
National Affairs
12 November 2020
With the federal government appointing a special war crimes prosecutor, it’s time to confront broader questions about armed interventions
National Affairs
6 November 2020
Is Labor right to be worried by Scott Morrison’s choice to head the Office of National Intelligence?
Books & Arts
7 August 2020
Books | Inept and corrupt, Australia’s earliest security organisations were ill-equipped for emerging threats
Books & Arts
21 July 2020
Books | Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
National Affairs
13 July 2020
A Biden administration won’t help with China and trade, and might even make things worse
National Affairs
6 July 2020
The government should focus less on war preparation and more on war prevention
National Affairs
2 July 2020
The launch of two new defence reports highlights the government’s preoccupation with military force and the American alliance
Books & Arts
24 June 2020
Books | Is Beijing really waging a successful war against the West?
National Affairs
9 June 2020
There are security risks in having foreign investment, but bigger risks in not having it
Books & Arts
28 April 2020
Books | The Hacker and the State vividly describes the growing importance of cyber operations in nation armouries
Books & Arts
23 March 2020
Books | How the Asia-Pacific became the Indo-Pacific, with a brief stop-off in the Asian century
National Affairs
19 March 2020
Neither Australia nor Timor-Leste is benefiting from a resource whose value seems greater than the petroleum gas that carries it
Essays & Reportage
12 March 2020
What are the lessons of overseas Covid-19 responses for Australian policymakers?
Essays & Reportage
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
Books & Arts
28 February 2020
Television | At heart, Homeland is a drama of loyalty and betrayal
National Affairs
27 February 2020
The security agency’s first public threat assessment was fine, as far as it went
National Affairs
18 October 2019
Questions need to be asked about the federal government’s embrace of facial recognition technology
Books & Arts
9 October 2019
Books | Veteran journalist Brian Toohey probes the network of laws and agencies that’s expanded rapidly in the name of national security
Essays & Reportage
26 September 2019
Former Labor national secretary David Combe, who died this week, found himself in the middle of a maelstrom in March 1983, just as his party was taking government
Books & Arts
9 July 2019
Books | Hugh White draws on his insider knowledge to pose all the right questions
Essays & Reportage
5 July 2019
Australia’s diplomatic language has evolved during a period of instability and risk, but is practice following?
International
25 June 2019
Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is doing the crown prince’s bidding
National Affairs
19 June 2019
There are leaks that are properly investigated, and leaks that aren’t
National Affairs
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
Essays & Reportage
18 April 2019
The upsides and downsides of the organisation and its controversial founder
Correspondents
16 April 2019
A decade ago, that distinctive national mood seemed to have died out. And then came the rise of far-right populism
National Affairs
11 March 2019
Our “state of exception” combines disturbing practices, cost blowouts and chaotic administration
From the archive
21 February 2019
The convention that neither side of politics comments on the operation of intelligence agencies really only benefits agencies, the government and (sometimes) the opposition
National Affairs
22 August 2018
From the archive | A man who seems relaxed about making life-and-death decisions might not be the best person to wield greater power
