In a year when so much has changed, it is important to step back and search for silver linings. This is the spirit of the American Thanksgiving tradition, and it is with this noble practice in mind that the Centre would like to invite you to a Thanksgiving webinar featuring US Ambassador to Australia Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. and Australian Ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos in conversation with USSC CEO Professor Simon Jackman.
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.
This new USSC report is a compilation of analysis from 13 different US politics, foreign policy, defence and economics experts, which forms a comprehensive policy roadmap for Australians to the incoming US administration and provides strategic recommendations on how to proceed under either election outcome.
While the risk of a deliberate nuclear exchange is still small between the United States and China, there is a growing risk of inadvertent nuclear use, according to new research from USSC non-resident fellow Fiona Cunningham.
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.
After the tension of a very close election and dealing with the last gasps of the Trump era, work on climate action starts when Joe Biden and his team start making key appointments...
This was always going to be one of the more eagerly awaited presidential memoirs in living memory. Not only because of Barack Obama’s astonishing success in his rise to the White House in...
Seventh US president Andrew Jackson, whose portrait is prominently on display in the Oval Office these days, was asked in his lame-duck period: was there anything he regretted not doing while in office?
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US President Donald Trump’s time in the White House is coming to an end. But, as has become obvious over the past few weeks, he is unlikely to deliver a gracious concession speech.
Even before the pandemic, the United States was experiencing its slowest population growth in a century, a combination of record low fertility and an increasingly restrictive approach to immigration. Previously a source of...
Australian historian Neville Meaney once compared the post-war trajectories of Japan and Australia, concluding that each had been on a path towards becoming “normal” nations.
Where Japan embarked on massive reindustrialisation following defeat...
Joe Biden has run this way all his life, starting in 1972, age 29, when he took on, and took down, a Senate veteran of 25 years’ service to the good people of...
Joe Biden is entering the White House promising to repair the enormous damage he believes his predecessor has caused. With respect to foreign policy, this includes restoring US leadership and its standing in...
USSC non-resident fellow Stephen Loosley joined 2GB for a history lesson on Thanksgiving, America’s national holiday that began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and...
USSC director of trade and investment Stephen Kirchner is quoted in this article published by The Australian.
Joe Biden has been officially designated as the apparent winner of the US election by an administrator in the Trump federal government. After the state of Michigan certified its election results, the Trump-appointed...
US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman told Sky News that the disjuncture between the depth of the COVID-19 crisis in America and how the president is spending his days is jarring. President Trump...
Donald Trump will remain in office until Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January 2021. Until then, some health experts fear America's COVID-19 response may fall into jeopardy - particularly without a smooth transition...
