This Month
- Opinion
- US election
America’s search for a new role continues
Despite the mediocrity of the candidates, America is not down for the count. But it is wasting precious time to redefine its world role
- James Curran
September
Why ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt warns we may have to pull plug on AI
The former Google chief executive and chairman said Western democracies had to regain lost ground in industrial policy to counter China.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
August
‘You don’t embarrass the New Yorker in Trump’ says military adviser
Chris Miller, a former acting secretary of defence and Project 2025 contributor, says the AUKUS military alliance will be fine if Donald Trump wins the election, but Vladimir Putin could be in a jam.
- Kevin Chinnery
April
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
America’s Superman foreign policy flies again
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
- James Curran
December
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.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Think you know this year’s news? Answer these 20 questions
Have you been paying attention this year? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Martin Indyk on what happens once Israel’s war is over
The former US ambassador to Israel and peace negotiator says Netanyahu is putting Israel’s relations with the US under extreme pressure and won’t escape a reckoning.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What Kissinger would have advised on Israel-Hamas
The Australian government has been trying to balance domestic opinion, rather than articulate clear and simple objectives.
- Alexander Downer
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Drawing a line under a toxic surge of prejudice
Turning societies overseas into echo chambers of prejudice and conflict in the Middle East is not helping the cause of a settlement
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Henry Kissinger was an inconsistent opportunist
America’s 20th century foreign policy giant and statesman was driven more by domestic considerations than he would ever have admitted.
- Tom Switzer
Inside COP28; Kissinger’s Rudd talk; Seven Munger-like trades
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
When ‘peacenik’ Whitlam met hardline Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was at the very centre of a diplomatic crisis with Australia in the 1970s – one that nearly ended the alliance.
- James Curran
What Kissinger told Rudd before flying to China
Australia’s Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd dined at the late Henry Kissinger’s home earlier this year.
- Matthew Cranston
November 2023
Henry Kissinger: a diplomat both admired and vilified
Historians and friends hailed Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic achievements, while critics assailed his policies in Vietnam and elsewhere as murderous.
- Michael D. Shear
Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100
He was a pivotal US secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who oversaw America’s involvement in and withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
- Updated
- Tony Diver
- Analysis
- Vale
Kissinger’s advice to aspiring leaders still holds
The arch foreign policy realist both intrigued and infuriated those around him and so many who have tried to assess his legacy.
- James Curran
What Henry Kissinger told the Financial Review in 1995
The diplomatic powerhouse has died at age 100. Here is an extract from a 1995 speech in Sydney.
- Henry Kissinger
October 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas
The Western world shirks difficult decisions out of misguided equivocating. Israel can have no such qualms.
- Ramesh Thakur
September 2023
Why Ken Griffin and Bill Ackman held secret talks at the UN
US financial leaders met in private with Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations General Assembly for talks on private-sector funds to rebuild Ukraine.
- Katherine Burton
July 2023
- Exclusive
- BOSS
Why leaders with big egos worry Rob Scott the most
The Wesfarmers CEO started work as a sailing instructor. He went on to win an Olympic rowing medal, marry an Olympian and run a $56 billion company. Oh, and he wants his staff in the office.
- Carrie LaFrenz