Re-vamping the Pacific: will Australia ‘step up’ or ‘step out’?
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
Foreign Policy Commentaries
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Turnbull had the right idea on China
It’s important, in the interests of constructive debate, to recognise when political leaders who have been the object of serious criticism in the past turn out to have done something right and to praise them fully for it.
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Brits beat us to an independent pandemic inquiry
While Australia can beat the Brits in cricket, the Brits have beaten us in mounting an independent inquiry into government handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dark times ahead as Australia faces crisis on crisis
I used to be an optimist about the world but now I am depressed. When I was born in the early 1970s, the popular wisdom warned that, unless prompt and drastic action was taken to limit population and industrial growth and to end nuclear weapons, the world would face disaster by the end of the 20th century.
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Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security
The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a convergence of security interests in …
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Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It
As leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the United Nations climate-change conference, you may think the world has agreed …
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Powell a great soldier-statesman and also a realist
Colin Powell was not only a great soldier-statesman. He also was a great man, one of the last surviving members …
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Support for ditching French subs deal is heartening
As the fallout from the AUSUK announcement continues to settle, the Prime Minister must be pretty happy with how things …
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AUKUS Is Good For Australia
The decision by the U.S., the U.K., and Australia to establish the AUKUS security alliance continues to make serious waves …
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Winds of global change hold risks for Xi’s ambitions
The AUKUS announcement, followed within hours by China’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade …