Australia
Dashed hopes for Australia, Europe still has blind spots on trade
The unsurprising announcement came overnight by Trade Minister Don Farrell that Australia has decided to walk away from negotiations on free trade agreement with the European…
Instead of worrying about Trump, see the benefits of Biden
On the heels of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Washington last week, which the Biden administration used to convey many messages of support for the US-Australia…
AUKUS as Big Science?
Alvin Weinberg, integral contributor to the infamous Manhattan Project, coined the term “Big Science” to describe the large-scale, often multi-nationally funded methods devised to…
How should Australia react to Bidenomics?
American economic policy has shifted towards government intervention, including industrial policy and away from free-trade. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan set out the…
A sign of the times: the resurgence of pacts, treaties, and alliances
There has been ongoing debate for several years now over whether the current era of “strategic competition” constitutes a “new Cold War”. Analogies have been cast about with…
Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?
It’s a long way from the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – literally and figuratively. The former is a majestic collection of giant rock…
Australia’s next challenge for Indigenous foreign policy
“The problem with media reporting on Indigenous Australians,” an Aboriginal leader told me more than a decade ago while I worked in the Canberra parliamentary press gallery, “is…
Imagining Trump’s second term
Review: Canada Alone by Kim Richard Nossal (Dundurn, 2023), and Trump’s Australia by Bruce Wolpe (Allen and Unwin, 2023)
After 9/11, French newspaper Le Monde turned over its…
How can Australia get its commitments to reduce carbon emissions back on track?
Difficult choices
As the Albanese government is gearing up to explain to the world the likely rejection of an indigenous Voice to Parliament at the referendum vote this weekend…
Australia must act fast on joint patrols with the Philippines
Enrique Manalo, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary, made his feelings clear. “During our discussions,” he declared on Tuesday, standing alongside his Australian counterpart…