The 2018 midterm elections are a record-breaking year for women in American politics, with more women running for US Congress and state-wide office than any previous election.
In the latest instalment of the USSC's Debate Papers series, we asked Alan Oxley and Stephen Kirchner whether the global trading system can survive the Trump administration's increasing use of tariffs as an instrument of international economic policy.
Just a week after it seemed likely he'd sail through confirmation hearings, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next US Supreme Court justice, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, faces a potential FBI investigation and Senate testimony from a woman accusing him of sexual assault.
Bruce Wolpe's weekly look at the issues affecting the US midterm election campaign.
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When the news broke over the weekend of Dr Christine Blasey's accusations of sexual assault against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the immediate reaction was to think back 27 years to the...
The failure of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 has become synonymous with the crisis that engulfed the United States and European financial system a decade ago, but left Australia's banks relatively unscathed.
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The United States midterm elections are being held on Tuesday, 6 November. This offers the first nationwide referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. Presidential elections are held every four years, in conjunction...
Despite the significant global outrage at US President Donald Trump and his supporters – best highlighted by the Pew surveys and more viscerally by the enormous anti-Trump protests in London in July 2018...
Director of the centre's Trade and Investment Program Dr Stephen Kirchner spoke to The Australian about how the latest round of tariffs between China and the US will affect Australia.
After months of speculation, and an unprecedentedly long delay, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has selected a US representative for the 2019 Venice Biennale. The delays worried many...
Barriers exist in Australia that are limiting the development and the widespread diffusion of digital agriculture technologies, and therefore the maturation of the sector. Overcoming these barriers by bridging the disconnect of expectations...
This report outlines some of the national security issues raised by recent changes in the sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia and the United States. The regulatory regimes for screening FDI...
China takes the long view and is assiduously planning its Great Rejuvenation while democratic governments think only as far as the next election. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is a master strategist who has...
The 2018 midterm elections are a record-breaking year for women in American politics, with more women running for US Congress and state-wide office than any previous election. This year’s wave of women candidates...
Non-resident senior fellow John Lee argues in this Nikkei Asian Review article that turmoil in Canberra comes at a time when Australia's region needs it to be a democratic leader.
Much is at stake in this November’s midterm elections in the United States: control of the US House of Representatives, the Senate and many state governorships and legislatures. But just as in Australian...
The Trump administration has invited Beijing to a new round a trade talks in September as the US prepares to place tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Director of the USSC's...
