June 2024
- Opinion
- Defence
Defence rhetoric is mismatched with lack of action on investment
If nothing changes and war were to break out at any time in the next 10 years, our military would essentially fight with the force it has today.
January 2024
- Opinion
- China relations
Australia and China have very different notions of stability
This week’s Chinese embassy press conference was a further effort to corral Australia into compliance and compromise with Beijing’s views.
November 2023
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
PM must not play Xi Jinping’s trade games
Anthony Albanese needs a philosophical framework that avoids sovereignty and international law being traded for economic rewards.
June 2023
- Opinion
- China relations
Albanese must stick to his guns on ending the trade war
Australia has let China off on a WTO barley case it would have won. It’s up to China to remove the obstacles to better relations that it has created.
April 2023
- Opinion
- Defence
Australia has woken up in time to the dangers of conflict
The urgency of the defence review crept up on us because democracies put their faith in trade and interdependence. Now they have a duty to deter war before it ever happens.
- Opinion
- TikTok
Democracies must regulate AI agents of intimacy and influence
A tech future based on anarchy with no rules will itself be ruled by authoritarian regimes.
March 2023
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS subs defend our sovereignty
A genuine trilateral partnership with trusted and reliable allies will strengthen, not diminish, Australia’s security capabilities and ability to play a meaningful role in regional stability.
December 2022
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
AUSMIN’s big stick lets Australia soften talk about China
The potent demonstration of regional military co-operation under the Australia-US alliance is enabling the Albanese Government to temper the rhetoric towards Beijing.
October 2022
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
India is weaning itself off Russia and countering China
The Indian foreign minister’s second visit this year is a clear signal that New Delhi views the partnership with Australia as central to its national interest.