30 Sep 2024
How Australia should deal with Trump
Trump disparages the liberal international order. Australia may need to serve in its bodyguard.
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8 Apr 2024
Beyond Biden vs Trump: The other US elections that matter
In US foreign policy, the Congress can pack a punch against the president, and that reverberates all the way to Australia. -
22 Mar 2024
Australia confronts an Indonesian nickel glut
Competition over strategic commodities may increasingly define the economic relationship between the two producers. -
18 Jan 2024
Economic diplomacy: To market, to market, with China
New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics. -
18 Oct 2023
Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined
The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready? -
28 Sep 2023
AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having
Can Australia’s statecraft and alliances offer alternative security options in the Indo-Pacific? -
2 Mar 2023
AUKUS and intellectual property
In an era of economic entanglement, IP theft has the potential to threaten democracy. Governments need to be vigilant. -
24 Feb 2023
The Australia-New Zealand alliance in a war with China
The potential for conflict in the region should have Canberra and Wellington thinking about shared strategic risks. -
8 Feb 2022
Getting ready for Trump as President 47
In order to adjust to an unpredictable United States, Canberra needs new habits. -
11 Nov 2021
Australia and the American far-right conspiracy
Covid tyranny? Could the fevered imaginings of the post-2016 Trump era end up colouring the US-Australia relationship? -
29 Oct 2021
What Australia needs to ask itself about the United States
As the US embraces “strategic competition”, its impetuous nationalism has implications for Canberra. -
18 Oct 2021
America’s doughnut shaped Indo-Pacific strategy
As Washington’s pivot to Asia begins to take shape, showing up in person and walking the talk will be deal-breakers. -
6 Oct 2021
AUKUS: What happens if the Republicans play the Trump card?
A White House change of guard could mean Australia needs to reassess its values under a more nihilistic regime. -
29 Sep 2021
AUKUS + Indonesia
Side-stepping any alignment with super powers allows Indonesia to reap the benefits of the new trilateral agreement. -
23 Sep 2021
Economic diplomacy: After AUKUS in trade, aid and technology
Commercial links may be China’s response to the submarine deal. -
21 Sep 2021
AUKUS and the CPTPP: It’s all about China
Security deterrence is only one factor in the new and fast-moving geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific. -
16 Sep 2021
AUSMIN is a chance to refocus Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy
For all the talk, there is little evidence that Washington is treating the region as a decisive priority. -
9 Sep 2021
ANZUS and Trumpism
Australia needs to acknowledge its blind spots in its 70-year friendship with America. -
24 Jun 2020
Generation why? Younger Australians wary of United States
Donald Trump is a big part of this story. But there is also a clear gap in attitudes toward China. -
9 Jun 2020
The case for Australian strategic ambiguity
Loyalty has its place. But being a more uncertain ally can make you a better friend. -
8 Oct 2019
US shift on Syria puts Canberra in a bind
Trump’s announcement may or may not be followed through, but it has serious implications for Australia either way. -
29 Aug 2019
Should ScoMo support Trump’s “madman” tactics?
The risk of going all-in with America’s trade war -
17 Apr 2019
A question of faith: future Coalition foreign policy under Morrison
<p>If he wins the Australian election, Scott Morrison's evangelical Christian faith may influence foreign policy.</p> -
9 Jan 2019
The special one: Australia, Ireland and the US working visa fight
After a lobbying campaign, Australia will retain exclusive access to a special visa allowing people to work in the US. -
5 Jun 2017
AUSMIN: Regional issues deserve top billing
The key question is whether Australian overtures to Tillerson and Mattis will inform President Trump’s decision making. -
2 May 2017
The allure of orthodoxy and the peril of sentimentality
It would be difficult to imagine Turnbull arriving in New York with nothing to offer Trump. -
23 Feb 2017
A question for alliance critics: What's your alternative?
Alliance critics need to offer realistic alternatives; alliance advocates need a realistic plan for helping the alliance adjust to difficult times ahead. -
22 Feb 2017
From one friend to another after an eventful first month
The US needs to engage with, and make reasonable space for, China. -
22 Feb 2017
Joe Hockey and the limits of mateship
Australia can do better than this. Now is not the time to be retreating into wilful sentimentality. -
13 Dec 2016
Fighting with America: Trump is the biggest stress test for ANZUS yet
Rather than historical amnesia, the problem Australian prime ministers will encounter with Donald Trump is historical illiteracy. -
24 Nov 2016
How US protectionism would threaten Australia
The US is far and away Australia's most important two-way investment partner. -
23 Nov 2016
ANZUS: Former Defence chief takes on the doubters
I have been disappointed with the political opportunism I have seen since the US election. -
17 Nov 2016
The Trump ascendency and the end of ANZUS bipartisanship
Why we might be seeing the end of Labor-Coalition consensus on ANZUS. -
28 Oct 2016
Gillard and Clinton: The pull of an old friendship
Clinton is said to have been impressed, in the time that Gillard was Australian Prime Minister, with her toughness on policy issues. -
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