Yesterday
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Bill Hayden’s foreign policy was his finest hour
Former Labor leader Bill Hayden’s 1983 ANZUS review preserved the alliance, but he despised craven and servile pandering to Washington
The map that shows Australia’s nine most important allies
The long list of alliances that Australia has joined in recent years is dizzying. Our international editor James Curran untangles the alphabet soup of acronyms and ranks them by importance.
This Month
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Congress sideshow an unwelcome hurdle for Biden, Albanese
The US president faces a Congress that doesn’t agree with him on the basic premise of US global leadership, complicating his latest pitch to finance alliance-building.
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Israel to cast a long shadow over PM’s Washington trip
The Middle East crisis is likely to dominate Anthony Albanese’s state visit to Washington, even as it opens another chapter in Australian-US strategic intimacy.
Thwarting China is not in our interests says former intelligence chief
Eminent strategist Peter Varghese is concerned that policy substance has gone missing in action.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Biden’s warning on the folly of revenge
The US President’s visit to Tel Aviv revealed a new lesson for international politics this century: don’t allow rage to lead to folly.
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Joe Biden’s fraught mission of deterrence
The US president’s Middle East trip just got more complicated. But his calculus remains the same: to pull the region back from the brink of a major conflict.
Everyone is a revisionist in Asia today
A leading Indian strategic thinker cautions that visions of a stable Asian “order” are illusory as the regional balance of power shifts so rapidly.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Joe Biden’s Israel visit is his boldest gamble yet
Joe Biden’s imminent Middle East visit may yield few dividends, but it is an imaginative and bold attempt to secure some kind of peace.
Israeli leadership stands at the edge of the abyss
Hamas’ chief motive was likely to carry out an operation so awful that it will inspire a hammer blow of revenge. The world awaits Israel’s response.
- Analysis
- Foreign relations
Does China really want to attack Australia?
Canberra is trapped between two instincts that have been historically conditioned: fear for the nation’s survival and loyalty to its protector in Washington.
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Another ‘forever wars’ distraction for America
Washington has been looking to focus on the China challenge, but now has conflicts to manage in the Middle East and Europe simultaneously.
- Opinion
- Western alliance
Defence the elephant in the room for PM’s US visit
Anthony Albanese will be feted when he heads to the US, but White House hard heads may be wondering about the seriousness of Australia’s defence commitments.
Scathing new report hands AUKUS sceptics firepower
A new Congressional report on AUKUS warns that an Australian accident could result in US warships being banned from foreign ports and questions whether Canberra would commit nuclear-powered submarines to a war over Taiwan.
September
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine fatigue laid bare on both sides of the Atlantic
As the NATO Secretary General says enlargement of the military alliance drove Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine, there are increasing questions in the US about funding the war.
Why we can’t rely on our alliance with the US
A new book by Sam Roggeveen is bound to profoundly unsettle the Australian national security policy consensus.
Dili’s China deal gives two fingers to Canberra
Cynicism abounds in Timor-Leste’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with China, but the deal is designed to goad Australia.
- Analysis
- Australian rugby
At Rugby Australia, 15 years of dithering must end now
In 2010, a confidential report Australian rugby commissioned said it needed a “major reorientation” or would suffer “certain failure”. We are still waiting for action.
- Updated
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Australia’s endless rediscovery of engagement with Asia
The Moore Report points Australian businesses in the right direction towards South-East Asia, but will they take the bait?
In Beijing, business fears Xi is out of ideas
A visit to Beijing finds the city humming but the mood downbeat, with some saying the toolbox to fix the nation’s troubles is empty of everything but trumpets.
- Updated
