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“The authoritarian will in general select those who obey, who believe, who respond to his influence. But in doing so, he is bound to select mediocrities. For he excludes those who revolt, who...
Known as a “hawk among hawks”, US President Donald Trump’s new national security advisor, John Bolton, has devoted his long career in Washington to championing US military intervention in places like North Korea...
Canberra is focusing on how to sustain the rules-based order given the Trump Administration’s apparent disinclination to incur the costs required to buttress that order. Some of this Presidency’s animating principles – its...
The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental — the Pentagon’s signature effort to engage commercial technology startups ― is primed to go global. In fact, DIUx could become a key platform by which the United...
There’s been much ado about the absence of a US Ambassador to Australia.
While the 11th hour re-routing of Harry Harris to Seoul captured attention, the underlying issue is that it will be...
The joint United States-China communique on trade issues released over the weekend has been flagged by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as a ceasefire in the trade war between the two economies.
Yet...
Primary season is now underway in the United States, with Democrats hoping a blue wave will carry them to majorities in both the House and the Senate. They have good reason for that...
On March 22 Atlanta, Georgia was under siege. But as its citizens set about their morning, no fighter jets screamed overhead and no armoured vehicles poured through the streets. The only indication anything was...
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is making an explicit trade-off between inflation and financial stability concerns. And this could be weighing on Australians’ wages.
In the past, the RBA focused more on...
Earlier this year, I reviewed Michael Wolff’s sensational, lacerating book on the Trump administration, Fire and Fury. Some claimed the book would bring down Donald Trump. It did not, of course. It has...
The election victory of the Mahathir Mohamad-led Pakatan Harapan coalition — translated as Alliance of Hope — is compelling evidence of the political maturity of the Malaysian people.
The extraordinary result is an...
In the fortnight since Kanye West reactivated his Twitter and shared a photo of himself in a “Make America Great Again” hat, a storm of media commentary, tweets and public debate has raged. One popular...
The Federal Government has announced $41 million of funding to kickstart the Australian space sector over the next four years.
The $41 million of funding is allocated across:
establishing the national space agency...Carl Bernstein, one half of the Woodward and Bernstein journalistic duo from TheWashington Post whose investigations made a significant contribution to the fall of Richard Nixon in 1974, is in no doubt as...
Sometimes, you don’t get the hero you want. You get the hero you deserve. That’s the case for Americans who believe that the current investigations into the Trump administration will expose political or...
While many think of innovation as something that solely happens when ambitious young people start working in Silicon Valley garages, quite a lot of innovation is actually occurring in one of the world’s...
After a number of years of relative disinterest in the Western Balkans, there has recently been no shortage of special panels, roundtables, hearings, opinion pieces, and reports on both sides of the Atlantic...
A last-minute reversal by Republican Senator Rand Paul overnight has seen CIA Director Mike Pompeo avoid a historic rebuke by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee — where a nominee for secretary of...
Anzac Day morning gave Australians yet another taste of the dysfunction inside the Trump administration. In a remarkable last-minute change, Admiral Harry Harris, Donald Trump’s nominee as US ambassador to Australia, instead was...
Former First Lady Barbara Bush, matriarch of the Bush political dynasty, died last week at the age of 92. In the days since her passing, there has been an outpouring of remembrances about...
