THE devastating natural disasters in Burma and China illustrate the difference between having a competent government and an incompetent one.
THE devastating natural disasters in Burma and China illustrate the difference between having a competent government and an incompetent one.
THE worst foreign policy decision the Rudd Government has made was to abolish the quadrilateral security dialogue between the US, Japan, India and Australia. I...
THE US war in Iraq has strengthened its strategic position, especially in terms of key alliances, and the only way this could be reversed would...
THE end of history has ended. We are no longer living in the post-history period. We are now in the post-post-history period. Or, to put...
LU Kewen, as our Prime Minister is known to tens of millions in Mandarin, is usually no Red Guard.
KEVIN Rudd wants to reform the world, or at last reform the way the world is organised. It would be easy to ridicule this ambition...
IF Kevin Rudd can secure Australian membership of a new high-powered security body for north Asia, involving the US, China and Japan, he will be...
KEVIN Rudd has a Beijing dilemma, what may come to be known as his own China syndrome.
ANY excuse for returning to Bali is a good excuse. This week the island paradise was host to a remarkable gathering.
THE death of Lance Corporal Jason Marks, the wounding of four of his fellow soldiers and the wounding in a separate incident of another Digger...
THE exquisite choreography of the US Democratic presidential primary was maintained at a magnificent pitch in Pennsylvania, with Hillary Clinton beating Barack Obama by the...
A LONG time ago, when John Howard was Opposition leader and Alexander Downer was foreign affairs spokesman, Margaret Thatcher told Downer that he occupied a...
KEVIN Rudd has handled a difficult assignment in China with courage and integrity. This was never more evident than in his comments about Tibet to...
KEVIN Rudd has had an excellent adventure in the US. And the irony is he owes much of his success to John Howard. Commentators have...
IT has become an article of liberal faith that the term war on terror is wrong because it empowers the terrorists.
THE fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq should lead us to focus on two inescapable but unfashionable truths: that Israel is marginal to most...
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