November 2024
UK votes to proceed with historic bill legalise assisted dying
The landmark bill has passed the first stage of Parliament - but will be subject to further discussion and amendments before it can come into law.
July 2024
Economic logic always trumps junk politics
Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.
The Conservatives imploded. Labour simply filled the vacuum
Labour’s landslide shares some parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 win but those end with Keir Starmer’s small target strategy and threadbare policy.
Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories
Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.
June 2024
Israeli business leaders push for elections
A forum of Israel’s top 200 business leaders is calling for early elections “to save Israel from a deep economic crisis”.
Crosby Textor advised pro-Beijing HK officials
The Australian political consultancy provided advice used by pro-Beijing officials in Hong Kong ahead of the start of national security laws that dramatically curtailed free speech.
May 2024
Lex Greensill alleges his UK pursuers were protecting David Cameron
The fallen Aussie financier alleges a media leak by Britain’s Insolvency Service, which is seeking to ban him as a company director, was politically motivated.
April 2024
Why China’s spies are being caught all over Europe
A flurry of arrests this week reflect the continent’s newly toughened response to Beijing’s espionage activities and political meddling.
‘It is clear the Israelis are making a decision to act’
Britain’s foreign secretary David Cameron acknowledged during a visit to Israel that an Israeli reprisal seemed inevitable.
Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets
Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.
Like Biden, Labor is on its own Israel journey
Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq
Biden vents ‘outrage’ over deadly Israeli strike on aid workers
The incident drew widespread condemnation and ratcheted up pressure on Israel to ease the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza after six months of war.
March 2024
A British friend with important lessons for Australia
The UK is a good strategic partner for us. It is also a public policy laboratory for what works – and what does not.
‘Dangerous world’: AUKMIN talks call out Chinese coercion
Security in the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic regions are inseparable, Australian and British ministers say.
‘Raided, arrested’: Hong Kong security law threat to Western business
The measures, which further tighten national security laws imposed by Beijing in 2020, fuelled concerns about Hong Kong’s future as Asia’s business hub.
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
The details of the Australian businessman’s claim against the UK’s Department for Business and Trade have not yet been made public.
February 2024
Navalny’s allies accuse Russia of murder cover-up
Police arrest hundreds of people at spontaneous memorial gatherings in Russia for the jailed opposition activist and Putin critic who died suddenly.
Why are we talking ourselves into Armageddon?
Western leaders and commentators are increasingly talking of World War Three, but they may be overestimating the strengths of Russia, China and Iran.
January 2024
Iran sends warship to Red Sea as tensions escalate
Iran’s foray into the Red Sea a day after the US action compounds a highly volatile situation in the channel that handles about 12 per cent of the world’s commerce.
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.