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Innovation is about change and new thinking. You would hardly know that from the recent AFR Innovation Summit, which featured speakers making the same well-known talking points, including the self-congratulatory call that ‘Australia...
Over the last week, US tech companies expelled Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, and his site InfoWars from their platforms. Facebook and YouTube kicked him off, and Apple stripped his podcast from iTunes...
Twenty-one years ago, US president Bill Clinton stood alongside his counterpart Jiang Zemin at a press conference and brazenly told his guest that when it came to political reform and respect for human...
The outcome of the recent AUSMIN meeting—the annual gathering of the secretaries of state and defence from the United States and the foreign and defence ministers from Australia—was a signal of the alliance’s...
Partisanship has become the dominant driver of social and political conflict in the United States and state-federal relations are increasingly conducted in the same vituperative style as Capitol Hill partisanship. This will have...
When Australia and the United States were negotiating their free-trade agreement in the early 2000s, Australia's regulation of foreign direct investment was a key stumbling block that nearly sank the deal.
One of...
In a speech to the Indo-Pacific Business Forum on 30 July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled the first new economic offerings of the Trump...
The silent and pivotal reality of today’s US politics is the continuing strength and resilience of Donald Trump’s electoral base.
Regardless of whatever controversy or fiasco engulfs the Trump White House, the base...
Spike Lee’s latest film BlackKklansman, which won the Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is based on real-life African American police officer Ron Stallworth (played by John David Washington, son...
Revelations that foreign and domestic intelligence agencies penetrated the communication networks of leading Australian mining firms, including Rio Tinto, provides an important lesson in how Australia should secure its vital interests in regulating...
Sacha Baron Cohen is back, with a new series called Who is America?. The British comedian, best known for his in-disguise interviews and political pranks, has set his sights on the United...
Campaigns, parties, interest groups, pollsters and political scientists rely on voter registration lists and consumer files to identify people as targets for registration drives, persuasion and mobilisation, and to be included in sampling...
Research fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program, Brendan Thomas-Noone and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Daniel Kliman wrote an article for Defense One providing a few...
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...
On September 20, 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria, a Category-4 storm likely killing thousands and costing an estimated US$90 billion in damages to an already financially-struggling island. A study from...
Yesterday, Julie Bishop and Marise Payne met their US counterparts in Palo Alto, California, for the annual AUSMIN talks between foreign and defence ministers from the two countries. It took place a week...
Australians report higher levels of anxiety than Americans on issues like climate change, and virtually identical levels of anxiety about the affordability of healthcare despite Australia’s stronger social safety net, according to new...
Never in AUSMIN's 33-year history have Australian decision-makers been less confident about the president's willingness to carry out the wishes of America's national security bureaucracy. For Australia, this presents a formidable challenge.
USSC lecturer in American studies Dr Rodney Taveira authored the chapter The Divine Violence of Underworld USA in the book The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World.
James Ellroy's identity as...
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, joined the United States Studies Centre for an address looking at the role of the...
