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James CurranBrisbane Times |
The Defence Minister has made it clear the government is going to stare down critics who want our troops turning up at every world trouble spot.
As the tinder in the Middle East smoulders once more, much will depend on whether Netanyahu lights another match or follows Washington’s calls for...
Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq
US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has spelt out publicly the expectations Washington has of Australia to fight alongside it in the Taiwan...
Ambassador Rudd is not the first to face the snarl of Trump’s contempt, nor will he be the last.
The government has already decided the visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is another notch in stabilising relations with Beijing. But is...
The problem is that the foreign minister, nor any political figure or official in the Australian government, will speak frankly about the US alliance.
There is a meaning to be extracted from the ASEAN summit for Australia’s international identity.
It is unrealistic to think the outcome of this week’s summit will be the next step in Australia building a broader network of Asian allies against...
The government’s announcement on Australia’s surface fleet doesn’t past the pub test. But is the nation’s strategic paradigm also dated?
Strategic analysts were adamant either that Ukraine would fall or Russia would buckle. Two years later, neither has happened.
The new president, steeped in Indonesian nationalism, is likely to hew closely to Joko Widodo’s middle path between the US and China.
Prabowo Subianto looks to have secured the Indonesian presidency - but will his time in office herald a new era for the country?
Canberra should reach out to Donald Trump not with gold-plated AUKUS submarine models but by restating why Australia’s defence matters to American...
Former prime minister John Howard has defended his record on committing Australia to the Iraq war. But we are no closer to fully understanding his...
Former prime minister John Howard has defended his record on committing Australia to the Iraq war. But we are no closer to fully understanding his...
Bad blood between the Israeli prime minister and the US Democrats goes back a long way. The danger now is that Israel never escapes from the baleful...
Missing cabinet documents relating to the 2003 Iraq war are unlikely to reveal the impulses that drove John Howard to a disastrous foreign policy...
Canberra has a big investment in preserving the status quo.
Even when released, the cabinet documents relating to the 2003 Iraq war will not reveal the impulses that drove John Howard into a disastrous...
Taiwan’s elections next month will once more focus attention on the difficulty of any future move by Beijing to absorb Taiwan.
Political bickering in Washington and European capitals over ongoing support for Kyiv appears to presage an even bleaker winter for President...
Australian diplomatic and security agencies are having to contemplate the consequences for Australia of the possibility of no second term for Joe...
The arch foreign policy realist both intrigued and infuriated those around him and so many who have tried to assess his legacy.
The prime minister faces growing currents of economic and social disaffection. But is he up to the task of navigating a way through?
Australia’s self-image at home has always weighed heavily on our foreign policy and our national security stance.
The essence of the matter is that there are always going to be surprises on the strategic front. That doesn’t mean that the government hasn’t been...
The sobering reality from the leaders’ meeting is the lack of a binding arrangement that anything they agreed would survive the next American...
Given the irritants on the horizon, even if the meeting in San Francisco is relatively cordial, relations are likely to quickly deteriorate amid...
The PM has come home full of China’s ‘win-win’ rhetoric on trade. But the future is trickier than it was before the trade war.
Only the challenges that will surely come can properly test these words of warmth and bonhomie. How this visit looks in a decade is difficult to...
As Anthony Albanese prepares to meet Xi Jinping, two schools of policy in Canberra are competing to steer the PM’s approach.
Former Labor leader Bill Hayden’s 1983 ANZUS review preserved the alliance, but he despised craven and servile pandering to Washington
The US President faces a Congress that doesn’t agree with him on the basic premise of US global leadership, complicating his latest pitch to finance...
The Middle East crisis is likely to dominate Anthony Albanese’s state visit to Washington, even if his stay adds another chapter in Australian-US...
The US president’s Middle East trip just got more complicated. But his calculus remains the same: to pull the region back from the brink of a major...
Joe Biden’s imminent Middle East visit may yield few dividends, but it is an imaginative and bold attempt to secure some kind of peace.
Hamas’s chief motive was likely to carry out an operation so awful that it will inspire a hammer blow of revenge. The world awaits Israel’s...
Washington has been looking to focus on the China challenge, but now has conflicts to manage in the Middle East and Europe simultaneously.
Anthony Albanese will be feted when he heads to the US, but White House hard heads may be wondering about the seriousness of Australia’s defence...
As the NATO Secretary General says enlargement of the military alliance drove Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine, there are increasing questions in the...
The Moore Report points Australian businesses in the right direction towards South-East Asia, but will they take the bait?
A visit to Beijing finds the city humming but the mood downbeat, with some saying the toolbox to fix the nation’s troubles is empty of everything...