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The 'State of the Union' refers to the constitutionally mandated duty of the US president to keep the House of Representatitves and Senate abreast of the current conditions of the United States and...
The US Senate has two more sittings this week: on New Year’s Eve (US time) and on Thursday, January 2, which is the last sitting day of the 115th Congress. In those sessions...
Donald Trump may be the most unconventional president the United States has seen in generations, but he has just made an overwhelmingly conventional choice to be the next US ambassador to Australia, and...
Elections in the United States are big business. Candidates have to pay for staff, travel, advertising, get out the vote activities and office space. However, there is very little in the way of public funding for...
Virtually every politically relevant, leading indicator points to the Democrats winning a majority of seats in the US House of Representatives on November 6. Public opinion polls have long suggested an 8-9 point...
In the lead up to the US midterm elections, political campaigns across the nation focus their efforts on ensuring supporters show up at the ballot box on November 6.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Digital blackface describes the act of producing, posting or circulating ‘black reaction gifs’ online and especially on social media threads. Someone watching a drama unfold might post Michael Jackson settling into the cinema...
AgTech is a nascent industry at the intersection of agriculture and technology. For this reason what is included and excluded in analyses of both the size of the current market and the future...
It might seem frivolous to point out, given the far more dramatic developments during the current administration, but President Trump is still yet to award any National Medals of Arts or National Humanities...
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...
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...
The Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) are Australia’s principal forum for formal consultations with the United States. The talks are led by the Australian Foreign and Defence Ministers and their counterparts, the US...
The ongoing absence of a US ambassador to Australia has generated plenty of political and academic debate over whether or not the Trump administration is taking the ANZUS alliance seriously. While the current...
Donald Trump insists that trade wars are “good and easy to win” and that the United States has nothing to lose from taking a confrontational approach to China on trade, citing the size...
From the Mexican border wall to refugee swap deals from Manus and Nauru, immigration has been a recurring point of tension during the Trump administration. But debate over a group of between 700,000-800,000...
The United States and Australia enjoy a deep and multi-faceted relationship spanning many years and generations. Having fought in every major war together for the past century and bound by a formal military...
