Trump unbound: An assault on democracy at home and abroad

21 Jan 2026 | Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy ...  

How Indonesia can rebuild trust before the next election

21 Jan 2026 | Gas shortages, poisoned school meals and rising distrust expose the growing gap between power and ...  

Western Sahara, Trump and the exposure of international law

21 Jan 2026 | By recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, Trump revealed how conditional interna ...  

The end of sovereign immunity: America’s new doctrine of capture

19 Jan 2026 | By seizing a sitting head of state, Washington has replaced international law with a doctrine of ...  

How Iran’s regime weaponised religion

13 Jan 2026 | Behind the language of morality and law, Iran’s theocracy has spent decades protecting abusers ...  

Gaza to Bondi: How appeasement shaped Albanese’s response to antisemitism

12 Jan 2026 | A pattern of appeasement, not moral clarity, has shaped the Albanese Government’s response to ...  

Pole-to-Pole with Donald Trump: An Australian guide to the new flat Earth

12 Jan 2026 | As Donald Trump redraws the world from ice cap to ice cap, Australia risks discovering that being ...  

Trump’s Venezuela abduction shatters claims of Western moral authority

9 Jan 2026 | By kidnapping a foreign leader, the Trump Administration has stripped the West of any credibility ...  

Australia’s ‘national interest’ falters in the face of Trump’s lawlessness

7 Jan 2026 | Australia’s leaders proclaim a rules-based international order, but fall conspicuously silent ...  

From rules-based order to rule by fear: America’s democratic unravelling

19 Dec 2025 | As the Trump Administration weaponises state power against critics, America’s self-image as the ...  

What Gaza and Ukraine reveal about a new era of imposed peace

18 Dec 2025 | From Gaza to Ukraine, externally designed peace plans are replacing negotiation with compliance ...