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Past prime ministers and foreign ministers, academics, business people and journalists are critical of the government’s handling of our relationship with China.
These critics point to bad Australian policy, an over-reaction to slights...
A military conflict in the South China Sea would force most shipping from Europe, the Middle East and Africa destined for Asia and the US west coast to be diverted around the south...
The government response to this week’s tensions with China was understandable, and while it marks a new low in relations, it also confirms what was an existing trend.
Hawks in both capitals, already...
Set against some of the gravest political, economic, and social challenges in modern America, Joe Biden’s early cabinet picks are both conventional and historic. Diversity appears to be the order of the day...
Donald Trump is refusing to go quietly into the night.
While he has finally accepted the start of a transition process to the new administration, he has not conceded the election to Democratic...
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...
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-elect Joe Biden’s income-redistribution and green-energy programs are set to be eviscerated by the US Senate, even if the Democrats gain a spare majority by winning both Senate run-off races in the...
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.
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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...
1968 was a year of recurring turbulence for the United States, all of it witnessed in American living rooms, courtesy of television.
Republican intellectual, George F. Will, notes that America was rocked by...
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...
Tackling the health, economic and social crises wrought by the coronavirus pandemic is the first order of business for US president-elect Joe Biden and his transition team, writes USSC non-resident fellow Lesley Russell...
The outgoing Trump administration presided over one of the most dramatic tightenings in US immigration policy since the 1930s.
Along with declining fertility, this saw US population growth fall to its lowest rate...
Tackling the health, economic and social crises wrought by the coronavirus pandemic is the first order of business for US president-elect Joe Biden and his transition team.
Biden this week announced his bipartisan...
Since the first person was diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States, more than 10 million cases have been confirmed and nearly a quarter of a million people with the virus have died.
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USSC non-resident fellow Lesley Russell looks at what needs to happen during Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s journey from election win to the White House in this article published by Inside Story.
A timeless tradition in political journalism is trying to find a narrative that explains an electoral outcome.
A widely accepted narrative to explain Barack Obama’s win over John McCain in 2008 was that...
Throughout the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, Joe Biden spent significant time reassuring American allies around the world that Trump’s America is not “who we are” and pledging “we’ll be back”.
Now...
