Election Interpreter 2013
Trade priorities in the 2013 election
Shadow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's outline of the Coalition's international policies emphasised the importance of trade in general and free trade agreements (FTAs) in…
Reader riposte: WikiLeaks Party responds
Alison Broinowski, a Senate candidate for the WikiLeaks Party, responds to Raoul Heinrichs' profile piece of last week:
Raoul Heinrichs and I had a comradely discussion before he…
How the world looks from Eden-Monaro
Douglas Fry is a Fairfax Media writer.
Eden-Monaro is the federal bellwether seat with an impeccable 40-year streak of electing the party that wins the election. It's a…
The foreign policy debate, storified
Stephanie Do Carmo is a multimedia intern at the Lowy Institute.
On Wednesday 7 August the Lowy Institute hosted a foreign policy debate between Minister for Foreign Affairs…
The WikiLeaks Party's foreign policy is surprisingly tame
What a difference a few years makes.
When, in 2006, WikiLeaks set out to begin exposing official malfeasance from the shadowy recesses of cyberspace, it did so as a largely…
Coalition shuffles foreign-policy deck
The campaign has provided very little news fodder for defence and foreign policy wonks (and no, last week's announcement from Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren…
The election, from overseas (part 2)
Marty Harris is an Assistant Digital Editor at the Lowy Institute. Part 1 in this series here.
The New Zealand Herald's Canberra correspondent claims that the environment could…
Tony Abbott and the US alliance
Hugh White's typically perceptive column on Tony Abbott argues that the old Howard slogan about Australia not having to choose between the US and China never really reflected…
Julie Bishop: The WA connection
Andrew Pickford is a Perth-based security and energy analyst. Here's part 1 of his Julie Bishop profile.
Western Australia's economic boom, arising from the sudden and massive…
NZ wants a boring post-election Australia
Robert Ayson is a Visiting Fellow with the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, on research leave from the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of…