The Sea Shepherd’s coming of age

9 Jan 2014 | The Sea Shepherd fleet is again in the Southern Ocean attempting to disrupt the annual Japanese ...  

Out of Iraq

6 Jan 2014 | The resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq has revealed some things we should have known before Bush ...  

Abbott's amazing Alpine adventures

31 Dec 2013 | Alan Austin reports from France on Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s continental family Christmas ...  

Abbott’s foreign policy disasters: 20 in 100 days

17 Dec 2013 | Few foreign affairs experts were surprised by Tony Abbott's foreign policy blunders — what's ...  

Billy Bunter’s plum posting

16 Dec 2013 | Why has Tony Abbott sacked Mike Rann to deliver his old mate Alexander Downer the plum London ...  

Leaked memo casts doubt over controversial TPP agreement

14 Dec 2013 | Doubts emerge over whether the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement will ever be implemented, with ...  

Is Singapore Western intelligence's sixth eye in Asia?

13 Dec 2013 | Singapore's strong links with Western intelligence may hamper it developing closer links with its ...  

What you need to know about the Trans Pacific Partnership

8 Dec 2013 | The secretive Trans Pacific Partnership moves into final stages of negotiations over the next few ...  

Beloved Mandela is dead

6 Dec 2013 | One of the world’s few universal heroes, Nelson Mandela, a man who taught us to seek justice ...  

Gee tribute to Nelson Mandela

6 Dec 2013 | Gee provides his tribute to the great Nelson Mandela (1918-2013).  

Abbott’s Dark State: War powers, invigilation and trust

4 Dec 2013 | The Attorney-General George Brandis says the Australian people can’t be told why a lawyer's ...  

The Fifth Estate confronts the Fourth Estate and Julian Assange

3 Dec 2013 | The Fifth Estate ‒ a film about Wikileaks ‒ outraged Julian Assange, was panned by critics and ...  

Three standout revelations from the first month of the UK phone hacking trial

3 Dec 2013 | Reporting for IA from the phone hacking trial in the UK, Peter Jukes says there are far bigger ...  

Craig Thomson on trial: Day one

2 Dec 2013 | An interesting admission was made by the prosecution today in the Craig Thomson trial, but the ...  

Indonesia crisis entirely of Tony Abbott’s making

26 Nov 2013 | Australia’s media are keeping readers ignorant of critical aspects of the diplomatic crisis with ...  

Mark Textor's racist Twitter rant

22 Nov 2013 | Just when you thought the Indonesian crisis couldn't get much worse for Tony Abbott and the ...  

Climate denialists congratulate Australia during Warsaw talks

20 Nov 2013 | Australia finally has a vocal cheerleader at the COP19 United Nations climate talks currently ...  

Peter Hartcher: The fifth columnist

20 Nov 2013 | Fairfax columnist Peter Hartcher is no impartial journalist, says Associate Professor Evan Jones ...