Hugh Piper
Biography
Publications
Hugh Piper is a director at Ancrum Advisory. He also edits The Policymaker, a digital publication of the James Martin Institute for Public Policy. Hugh has previously worked at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue, and as a ministerial speechwriter and strategic policy adviser at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Oxford and degrees in law and history from the University of Sydney.
Time to fill the empty office in Yarralumla
After 10 months without a US envoy, the Trump-Albanese meeting offers a chance to end the ambassadorial absence.
Australia should heed Britain’s tough choices – and its mistakes
Development spending prevents conflicts and builds resilience – dismissing it as secondary betrays decades of effective practice.
The Liberal Party’s coming foreign policy split
Immigration, climate, trade and China are fracturing the conservative side of politics into rival camps with competing worldviews.
Australia’s generational challenge with war
When fiction reveals hard truths about Australia’s defence readiness.
“Daddy” diplomacy: The politics of obsequiousness
Flattering Trump may win short-term favour only to create a dynamic that will weaken future negotiating positions.
League versus union: Australia’s rugby diplomacy needs a game plan
Does Australia really want to fund rival codes against each other in Pacific competition with Beijing?
Australia can’t prevaricate on tough economic and security trade-offs anymore
To be safer in the world, Australians might need to be less secure at home.
Australia’s royal dilemma as King Charles serves conflicting Commonwealth interests with Trump
If Australians found their sovereignty threatened, would people want an unelected septuagenarian Englishman representing their interests as head of state?
What the coalition split means for Australian foreign policy
More sources of dissent from government policy might result – but it will also be harder to hold Labor to account.
