Time for Tony to take up something useful

19 Nov 2013 | All conservative governments need secrecy to survive and this one’s cover is getting blown wide ...  

The Everingham files: Tony Abbott, Sri Lanka and George Pell

19 Nov 2013 | They say you can tell a lot about a person by the friends he keeps and so it is with Tony Abbott ...  

Warsaw Climate Talks Day 8: China unsure progress is possible

18 Nov 2013 | The UN climate talks in Warsaw move up a gear in this second and final week, as countries scramble ...  

How to trash Australia’s international standing in three easy steps

18 Nov 2013 | The Coalition’s blunderbuss approach to governing the nation and diplomacy has delivered a ...  

Humiliation on the high seas

17 Nov 2013 | Can the Abbott Government develop an understanding of Indonesia and smooth the damaged relation ...  

The Commonwealth Tournée and the two families

15 Nov 2013 | The 23rd Commonwealth Tournée begins today in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and will end on Sunday. Dr ...  

Why people (mostly Governments and journalists) hate WikiLeaks

14 Nov 2013 | NSW Wikileaks Party candidate Dr Alison Broinowski talks about Julian Assange and Wikileaks and ...  

Four Corners, JFK and the lost Johnson

12 Nov 2013 | Bob Ellis, who was 21 when JFK was assassinated, is not convinced by last night's Four Corners ...  

Abbott's Australia stretches the friendship with Indonesia

12 Nov 2013 | With Indonesia rejecting the Abbott Government’s “turn back” policy, Australia's position of ...  

The tragic futility of trying to “stop the boats”

11 Nov 2013 | WikiLeaks Cables show no refugee policy, no matter how harsh and inhumane, can stop people from ...  

Don’t let the Kiwis beat us to an Australian republic

6 Nov 2013 | On the 14th anniversary of Australia’s republic referendum, history editor Dr Glenn Davies ...  

Australian spies hurt Asian ties

5 Nov 2013 | An "out of control" Australian intelligence community may have compromised Australia strategic ...  

Free Trade Agreements and their questionable benefits

18 Oct 2013 | In a follow up to his blockbuster on the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership, Dr Matthew Mitchell ...  

Time to shutdown the Tea Party shutdown

15 Oct 2013 | With the U.S. government shutdown approaching its third week, the risk of default climbs and polls ...  

Winds of discontent swirl over Borneo

12 Oct 2013 | With Malaysia this year celebrating its 50th year as an independent nation, its patchwork settl ...  

The U.S. shutdown and the Koch Brothers’ Samson Option

12 Oct 2013 | The fiscal crisis in Washington is not simply a threat to economic and government stability, it ...  

Bali Bombing compo: Howard Government blood money?

9 Oct 2013 | In Bali for the APEC Summit, PM Tony Abbott is expected to acknowledge Saturday's 11th anniversary ...