Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Opinion
Australia votes
Dutton’s suddenly electable, but here’s why he’ll struggle to become PM
Pollsters believe the Albanese government’s in trouble. But the Coalition must still defy history, and overcome a significant seat deficit, to win power.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Opinion
China relations
He said, Xi said: Why Beijing may seek to exploit Philippine political divorce
The president and vice president of the Philippines are at each other’s throats. But the row is a potential proxy for a much more significant conflict.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Political leadership
Why Bill Shorten embodies the best, and worst, of Australian politics
As the former Labor leader leaves the political stage, he admits to having regrets but “too few to mention”. He should reconsider.
- by Peter Hartcher
Rudd operates as ‘foreign minister’ in DC: Top Biden adviser
US President Joe Biden’s top adviser on Asia has strongly backed Kevin Rudd, after the former PM made his first public comments since Donald Trump’s election victory.
- by Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
Opinion
International affairs
The age of the carnivores is upon us: China, Russia and their war machine
The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores, Emmanuel Macron says. The meat-eaters are circling for a carnivores’ picnic of territorial conquest.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Foreign relations
Murdoch’s Ruddicide will fail. Here’s why Trump will warm to our Kevin
News Corp wants Kevin Rudd removed from his Washington post, but the envoy has already built a network within the Trump 2.0 White House.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
US Votes 2024
How the deluded Democrats were trumped. It’s the democracy, stupid
It turns out that Democrat voters’ definition of the threat to democracy was completely different to Republicans’. But voters preferred Trump’s version.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Can Trump 2.0 defuse the nuclear threat? These Washington heavyweights fear not
A president given to simplistic plans and impulses must now deal with a whole new level of nuclear complexity for which neither he nor the US system is yet equipped.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
US Votes 2024
If George Washington was the father of America’s democracy, Donald Trump is its undertaker
When Joe Biden took power, he said he would try to save American democracy. He and Kamala Harris have failed.
- by Peter Hartcher
Exclusive
US Votes 2024
‘We have no choice’: Trump ally Bannon says US must defend Taiwan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has previously implied that the United States could not protect Taiwan from a military operation.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
US Votes 2024
‘You haven’t seen anything’: Trump loyalist Bannon prepared for new levels of hostility
Fresh out of prison, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist warns “it will be Stalingrad every day” if the Democrats try to “steal” the US election.
- by Peter Hartcher
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