March 2024
When the minister met the ‘mischievous’: What Wong said to Curran
Foreign Minister Penny Wong parried with James Curran at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit this week. This is an edited transcript of that discussion.
March 2022
Why we’ll remember Penny Wong
Labor’s Senate leader should have paused for thought before invoking Madeleine Albright.
Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s secretary of state, dies at 84
Albright never lost sight of the way her career broke through glass ceilings and made a point of promoting women throughout her professional life.
September 2021
No more US intervention? Tell me another one
America is said to be on the verge of something called ‘isolationism’. The record, by contrast, tells us to expect another show of force in some remote trouble spot or other by mid-decade. Go with the record.
July 2020
Madeleine Albright talks books, Aussie friends, China, Trump and more
Is the author and former US secretary of state a one-book-at-a-time person? On the eve of her new book release, she sits down with AFR Magazine for a Q&A.