A year ago, the country seemed to be ticking along quite nicely. But now things are falling apart.

We will need to engage more with Washington, not less, in order to try to influence the course of US foreign policy

Earlier this afternoon, I sat down to discuss the new Defence White Paper with my colleagues Euan Graham, Director of the Lowy Institute's International Security program, and Sam Roggeveen, once a defence intelligence analyst and these days the Lowy Institute's Director of Digital. In this podcast

Cuba, I recently discovered, is a highly popular destination. The US and Cuba have restored their diplomatic relations, and in January Habana Vieja (Old Havana) was crammed with European and Canadian tourists. It is just as charming as you would expect from the travel magazines, and just as unreal

As readers of The Interpreter may have heard, I've just launched a revised second edition of Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches. Most of the speeches in my book are about Australian history, culture and politics, not Australian foreign policy. As I've argued before, foreign