Book reviewReviewImagine growing up in a family in East Germany, in the 1960s and ’70s, in which your father works for the Stasi on secret missions in the West that he will not talk about. Your mother won’t talk about them either. Then the past breaks open.
Book reviewReviewThe looting of state-owned assets in Russia was just the start of the crime rush.
There’s nothing on offer from China, Russia or Iran that could at all replace the advantages conferred on us by the old world order. But what if it collapses?
The message from our government, from our democratic parliament, should be to declare loud and clear: ‘Ambassador Maimon, we understand the challenges you face. How can this war now be won?’
How should one respond to an argument that we should not defend our country at all, if it was invaded by China, or some other hypothetical enemy?
Book reviewReviewJoseph E. Stiglitz’s Road To Freedom writes passionately about economic fairness but what does this mean in practice?
analysisThere is nothing remotely idealistic about Putin’s regime or its intelligence services. The regime is a kleptocracy and its secret services a mafia.
What’s getting lost in all the brouhaha about the return of an Australian citizen are the underlying issues to do with freedom of speech and classified information.
Surely when the Albanese government appointed Rudd to Washington it was aware of his track record at the Asia Society.
Book reviewReviewMelbourne University’s Frank Knopfelmacher was a sensible, independent voice in a sea of incoherence.