December 2024
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
Former spymaster has an appetite for disruption
Former ASIS chief Paul Symon has joined former ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos and former head of Operation Sovereign Borders Lee Goddard to advise venture capital firm Salus.
- Andrew Tillett
April 2024
Sinodinos rockets into corporate world
The former ambassador and minister will chair a Brisbane aerospace company developing superfast rockets for the US.
- Andrew Tillett
May 2023
Quad launches investor group with Andy Penn, Joe Hockey on board
The former Telstra boss and former Liberal treasurer are among five Australian-based leaders appointed to an advisory board for a new Quad investor network.
Is Labor’s Chris Ketter bound for San Francisco?
Labor is ever-so-slowly “rebalancing” the government’s plum overseas postings to career diplomats, but there are exceptions!
- Joe Aston
March 2023
Rudd will ensure Australia is no US lackey: Sinodinos
Australia’s outgoing ambassador to the US says Canberra will be more ambitious with Washington under his successor Kevin Rudd.
- Matthew Cranston
January 2023
Stand aside Washington, here comes Kevin Rudd
The ex Labor leader’s strengths as a former prime minister, China expert, and close ties to Anthony Albanese and top Biden officials will be in play from day one.
- Matthew Cranston
May 2022
Bubs Australia secures deal to send baby formula to US
US President Joe Biden endorsed the deal as his administration works to ease a nationwide shortage of formula.
- Matthew Cranston
April 2022
Why Australia is the talk of the town in Washington
The US is going out of its way to strengthen military, diplomatic and academic bonds with Australia as geopolitical tensions rise, especially in the Indo-Pacific.
- Matthew Cranston
January 2022
US needs to step up more for Pacific allies: Kurt Campbell
The White House’s top Asia diplomat says America needs to be a “better deputy sheriff” to Australia in the Pacific.
- Matthew Cranston
November 2021
AUKUS about ‘projecting power’ north, says Sinodinos
Australia’s ambassador to the US Arthur Sinodinos says the AUKUS arrangement should be about projecting power north, not just passively protecting the mainland.
- Matthew Cranston
September 2021
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
The Morrison government is provoking China to please America
The Coalition is ignoring Australia’s interests by pushing us towards conflict with Beijing, mainly to be seen as a fawning US acolyte, writes Paul Keating.
- Paul Keating
Morrison leading Australia into a dead end on China: Keating
The former prime minister says the Morrison government wanted to be seen as a ‘fawning acolyte’ by the US.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
China an ‘existential threat’ to US and allies: general
One of America’s highest-ranking generals says China is a bigger threat than a 9/11-style terrorism attack, echoing views expressed this week by Australia’s ambassador to the US.
- Matthew Cranston
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
China’s coercion is a bigger threat than another 9/11: Sinodinos
Australia’s ambassador to the US says the danger from terrorism has been surpassed by threats of “digital authoritarianism in the region” and other coercive actions.
- Matthew Cranston
March 2021
‘Opportunities’ open for Australia on US-China rivalry: Sinodinos
The ambassador to the US says Australians will feel the positive economic impact of Joe Biden’s $2.5 trillion pandemic relief package later this year.
- Jacob Greber
February 2021
Biden’s $4trn infrastructure spend a boon for Aussie firms
Australia’s ambassador to Washington Arthur Sinodinos says local capital managers and infrastructure players can benefit from US infrastructure spend.
- Ronald Mizen
January 2021
PM to lobby Biden on clean energy 'partnership'
Scott Morrison will lobby President Joe Biden in a bid to align with the new administration’s ambitious climate change plans.
- John Kehoe
December 2020
Trump gives Morrison a gong on the way out the door
Scott Morrison has been awarded the Legion of Merit for his leadership in addressing global challenges.
- Andrew Tillett
November 2020
PM pushes on with foreign power veto bill as Biden offers hope
The foreign relations bill would give the Commonwealth wide powers to veto agreements between the states, local government and universities and foreign powers.
- Phillip Coorey
Morrison congratulates Biden
The Prime Minister says his government is looking forward to working with the new US administration on "the world's many challenges" including a COVID vaccine and new technologies to reduce global emissions.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey