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- International affairs
When Keating went to war with the White House
Secret cables reveal for the first time how Keating’s right-hand man and a senior White House official engaged in an extraordinary war of words in 1992, sometimes in personal terms.
- Analysis
- International affairs
Washington can be a prickly and insecure great power ally
The Russell-Zoellick correspondence reveals an Australian government not afraid to talk truth to American power, an art largely lost over recent years.
Yesterday
- Opinion
- AUKUS
Albanese is losing the AUKUS debate
The government is prioritising platitudes over substance as critics question the $368 billion nuclear submarine project.
July
- Opinion
- Immigration
Multicultural report buries Australia’s British past
The institutions that Britain brought – parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, an independent judiciary and a free press – are the very institutions which have allowed multiculturalism to flourish. This report ignores them.
- Analysis
- US election
The tragedy of Joe Biden: a cruel exit after 50 years in politics
History will ultimately decide whether the Biden presidency was one of relative political normalcy, or an aberration sandwiched between the Trump presidencies.
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Donald Trump is again the urgent issue for allies
Critics label the Trump-Vance ticket as isolationist in foreign policy. But the pair actually wants American priorities reordered to take on China.
- Opinion
- US politics
More shots heard around the world
For Donald Trump, the ‘bully pulpit’ almost became his funeral pyre. And the gulf between his strongman image and Biden’s ongoing struggles is now likely to widen.
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
Revealed: Turnbull’s Paris option to revive French subs deal
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull paved the way for Australia to renegotiate the French submarine contract when Labor came to power, but there was silence from the new government.
- Opinion
- Defence
Pezzullo bangs the war drums against placating an ‘imagined China’
The former Home Affairs secretary does not, however, present a philosophy of international relations that might form a basis for Australia’s position in the world.
- Analysis
- AUKUS
AUKUS future is resting on belief alone
Defence and government figures brim with confidence over Australia’s nuclear submarine program, but there’s no Plan B and – to some – there’s an air of desperation.
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS ‘moonshot’ may be a tragically expensive failure
It is alarming that both Coalition and Labor politicians fail to acknowledge the risk that Australia could be left with no submarine capability by the end of the 2030s.
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
‘A cruel joke’: Why AUKUS might leave Australia stranded
A group of defence experts says that the Albanese government is on course for a financial and strategic AUKUS disaster, in the final part of an exclusive series.
- Investigation
- AUKUS
Morrison’s ‘longest night’: Inside the making of AUKUS
The military agreement is a mess and risks leaving Australia with no submarine capability at all by the late 2030s. The cloak of secrecy that secured the deal could now be its undoing.
June
- Opinion
- UK
Will Keir Starmer go wobbly on AUKUS?
The fantasy of a post-Brexit “global Britain” is gone, but British Labour says it will be everywhere around the world, and all at once.
- Analysis
- US election
Only one question for Democrats after Biden’s debate
Joe Biden faltered early. At one point, the words simply failed him. He appeared momentarily lost and Donald Trump went for the jugular.
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Putin to Xi: I have options in East Asia
The Russian President’s visits last week to North Korea and Vietnam shows Russia’s residual capacity to stir trouble in East Asia.
- Opinion
- China relations
Albanese elevates diplomacy over the drum beat of war
Few can doubt the success of ‘stabilisation’ for the Australia-China relationship, but how might it work when applied to the region?
- Updated
- Analysis
- China relations
Li’s visit shows Australia and China are trying to move on
The first visit of a Chinese Premier to Australia since 2017 revealed two countries straining to have a normal diplomatic relationship.
- Opinion
- China relations
‘Stabilisation’ shouldn’t straitjacket deeper economic ties with China
Anthony Albanese’s date with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Canberra is an opportunity to work on a trade-based agenda for the future between two deeply complementary economies.
Who were the 15 greatest Wallabies of all time?
In a new book, author and indispensable rugby commentator Gordon Bray had a brutal task picking from the 900 players who have represented Australia over 125 years.
