Meet the Aboriginal politician leading the charge against Australia’s Voice referendum
The Aboriginal politician leading the charge against Australia’s disastrous referendum
Plus ça change…
I was stopped at the pub a few weeks ago by a middle-aged bloke, who identified himself to me as…
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Sydney For decades, Australia has been known as ‘the lucky country’. At the end of the world geographically, we are…
Turning back refugee boats saves lives - as Australia found out
Turning back boats saves lives
Salad days
If you enjoy reading Greg Sheridan’s Diaries in this magazine, you’ll love this book. The author, a 30-year veteran journalist…
The many lives of Richard Nixon
Winston Churchill once said of politics that it’s ‘almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you…
Diary
A lamentable by-product of the media in the digital age is its frequent lack of good manners. Ridiculing opponents rather…
Two cheers for Bowen
Since I know Speccie readers like a bit of a shock, let me oblige: I think Chris Bowen is a…
A foreign policy realist
‘The United States does not want either side to win this war. Victory for either side would mean dreadful massacres…
Conservative landslide in Australia: Tony Abbott will crush Kevin Rudd
Sometimes only a cliché will do, especially when the subject is the Australian Labor party. Labor is holed beneath the…
Foreign Policy Begins at Home, by Richard N. Haass - review
A year or so after the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, an unnamed senior Bush administration official (later revealed to be Karl…
