A new book provides a sharp and unsettling examination of how Australia’s foreign policy is being shaped, steered and stretched by the strategic ambitions of a Trump-led United States. Bevan Ramsden ...

Despite repeated conference pledges and overwhelming public support, Labor continues to stall on signing the nuclear weapons ban treaty highlighted in a damning Four Corners report, writes Bevan ...

The combination of moral authority and strategic location could make Timor-Leste an unexpected mediator in regional disputes. Kurniawan Arif Maspul reports. TIMOR-LESTE'S ACCESSION to ASEAN this week ...

Trump is an unpredictable force reshaping global politics and international behaviour, reframing diplomacy, institutions and public discourse in his wake, writes Vince Hooper. In these fractious times ...

Fresh scrutiny of royal interference in Whitlam’s Dismissal has renewed calls for Australia to finally become a republic, writes Dr John Jiggens. IN 1999, Australia held a referendum to alter the ...

The Liberal Party Leader added: "Why else would we plan to cease all renewable projects? The clue is in the name, Net Zero — for zero action on climate. I don’t see what all the fuss is about, quite ...

If we are to survive, unprecedented levels of cooperation are needed, no matter how unlikely. Mark Beeson writes. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE is failing. Nothing highlights this reality more dramatically than ...

Despite the spin, the Coalition and News Corp remain mouthpieces for billionaire interests bent on stalling climate action and truth alike, writes Dr Victoria Fielding. THE LIBERAL and National ...

While leaders fumble climate action, the unchecked rise of superintelligent AI could eclipse every threat we know, writes Mark Beeson. WELL-MEANING friends frequently tell me not to be so pessimistic, ...

The monopolisation of media isn't just undemocratic — it enables criminal economies to flourish behind a façade of control, writes Nick Potter. WHEN A GOVERNMENT declares that it “solely controls” the ...

A new OECD report warns that without coherent strategy and collaboration, Australia’s tech ambitions risk collapsing under bureaucracy and complacency, writes Paul Budde. THE OECD’s Science, ...

Capitalism's unrestrained access to political influence, land and labour is starting to cannibalise the very consumer market it requires to exist, writes Yuki Lindley. WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA feeds ...