Australian Perspective
MH17 crash site: A police-led approach is the right solution
Last night Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia has prepositioned 50 Australian Federal Police officers, presumably from the International Deployment Group, in…
Australia's new activism: The view from Washington
When US officials talk about the US-Australia alliance, they almost always highlight, as President Obama did in his November 2011 speech in Canberra, that Australians have fought…
Syria, MH17 and the art of the possible at the UN
Australian diplomacy at the UN has kicked up a gear over the last two weeks. On 14 July the Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2165, drafted by Australia, Jordan and…
MH17: The Australians get their resolution
The UN Security Council observes a minute's silence for the MH17 victims. (UN photo.)
The clocks at the UN were approaching midnight on Sunday night when the Security Council…
Does Abbott understand the China challenge?
Sam Roggeveen says that Mr Abe's visit last week, and Julie Bishop's interview with John Garnaut, show that the Abbott Government now accepts there is a serious strategic…
Australian economic reform: The next generation
Growth in HALE index, Intangible GDP, net national income and GDP, 2005-2014.
John Edwards' Beyond the Boom tilts effectively against Australia's congenital Hanrahanism. It points…
Abe's Canberra speech: Dispelling doubts
Prime Minister Abe's carefully crafted speech to the Australian parliament gave credence to Prime Minister Abbott's much tut-tutted claim that Japan is Australia's best friend in…
Australia's economic growth secret: It's not mining, and it's not micro reform...
Reading John Edwards Beyond the Boom, I am struck by how easy it is to take the same facts, and treat them as good or bad news. The factual core of Edwards' argument is that the…
Australians shifting on climate change
A month ago my colleague John Connor wrote an op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald welcoming the fact that for the first time in years, climate change was a major story coming out…
Can women lead? Australians think so
Comments by Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard this week have invigorated the debate on women and leadership. Clinton's recently released book Hard Choices made news in Australia…