Should spooks vet the reliability of parliamentarians? It is not clear that doing so would benefit our democracy.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
If China is trying to drive wedges between the protest movement and mainstream citizens, it seems to be failing.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
In our rush to step up in the Pacific, we must not make the mistake of stepping down in south-east Asia.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
The Kurds will have to make their peace with Bashar al-Assad. Western governments will worry about ISIS fighters becoming bargaining chips.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Australia has a strong case to join the top democratic table. The PM should ask Donald Trump for help to do so.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
The US alliance is the great totem of Australia's foreign policy, before which our major parties kneel. But they should look up once in a while, lest the tectonic plates shift again and the totem topples.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Neither the US nor China can dominate the other. That leaves an opening for smart middle powers that know their own strengths.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
China’s encroachment on the former colony’s autonomy threatens to undermine the foundations of its economic success.
Originally published in Bloomberg Opinion
Touting a new narrative of the Pacific family, Scott Morrison is profoundly changing where the Pacific fits into Australian foreign policy.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review
Amid the sound and fury of US President Donald Trump, European populists, and Brexiteers, it is tempting to think that Australia has been spared from the political turmoil sweeping Western democracies. But if one focuses not on the rise of populism but on the decline of the mainstream, Australia no
For a country which has squandered its soft power over the last decade, Australia needs to grab foreign policy advantages where it finds them.
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review