Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on 20 January 2021 with an expansive agenda that includes rolling out an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, reshaping the economic recovery, overhauling climate policy and rethinking the power of tech companies. Follow along as our leading experts explore and analyse the key events of the Biden presidency.
This USSC report is a compilation of analysis from 13 different US politics, foreign policy, defence and economics experts, which provides strategic recommendations and forms a comprehensive policy roadmap for Australians to the Biden administration.
Australia will experience a permanent loss of population and productive potential because the government assumes no future make-up of lost NOM, but this is a policy choice that could be offset with a more liberal approach to immigration in the future.
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is a university-based research centre, dedicated to the rigorous analysis of American foreign policy, economics, politics and culture.
The Australian and United States governments both ordered urgent reviews of their supply chains last week amid growing concern about their vulnerability to disruption by China.
Australia’s Productivity Commission, which typically takes three...
The hardest task in politics is not to face down your official opponents on the other side of the parliamentary aisle. This comes naturally and is really a matter of political DNA. What...
As severe winter weather hit Texas late last month, residents suffered the loss of electricity and water, and dozens of people died — from exposure, from house fires, from carbon monoxide poisoning. At...
The vote for Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and subsequent acquittal in the Senate fell largely along partisan lines. It was yet more incontrovertible proof of a five-year long process of “hostile takeover”...
Just like former president Donald Trump, who committed his impeachable high crimes in broad daylight, Facebook, led by Mark Zuckerberg, mugged its 13 million users in Australia not in an unlit back alley...
Mere hours after being inaugurated, President Biden signed a raft of executive orders and other proclamations, all dealing with high profile topics and, in many cases, fulfilling commitments he made during the campaign...
The Indo-Pacific Defense Forum excerpted and edited an article from a report published by the United States Studies Cente, Operationalising Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, written by USSC director of foreign policy and defence...
Sharing vaccines fairly is not only an ethical imperative but also essential to controlling COVID-19 writes USSC non-resident fellow Lesley Russell in Inside Story.
Former US President Donald Trump has made his first public speech since Joe Biden was elected President. Trump addressed the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida. In the speech...
USSC non-resident senior fellow Stephen Loosley is among the guests on ABC Saturday Extra's A Foreign Affair. The panel discusses topics including the continuing protests in Myanmar as countries in the region and...
The Guardian reports that Facebook’s clash with Australia’s government has left clues as to how US legislation might rein in its vast influence. The article quotes USSC non-resident senior fellow Bruce Wolpe.
