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Alexander DownerFinancial Review |
The confected outrage over the deaths of Australian Zomi Frankcom and her fellow Gaza aid workers goes way beyond the reaction to earlier wartime...
The UK is a good strategic partner for us. It is also a public policy laboratory for what works – and what does not.
The foreign minister made the most of China’s realisation that “wolf warrior” bullying has been counterproductive.
South-East Asian nations need to become attractive to foreign investors through deregulation and establishing independent and incorruptible legal...
Labor has put aside two absurd features of the Keating era: a defence policy designed to deal with direct invasion and the diminution of our US...
Never has a political party so racist, confrontational and divisive been elected to the Australian parliament.
Populists are thriving in the huge gulf between what the masses want for their countries, and what elites think they should have.
Jiang Zemin told me that liberal democracy is not for China’s people. Taiwan has once again shown this to be nonsense.
The electoral choices that Indonesia makes this year should be at least as important to Australians as the primary vote in Iowa.
The war in Gaza has exposed the splits within Western societies between those who believe in critical theory and those who still believe in the...
The Australian government has been trying to balance domestic opinion, rather than articulate clear and simple objectives.
No Palestinian leader would survive conceding to a two-state solution. Most Palestinians want Israel eliminated.
As our productivity declines and living standards stagnate, we need to find a path back to the formula that helped to transform our economic debate.
The best way to stop war spreading is to make it clear to our adversaries the incalculable price they would pay for their bellicose behaviour.
But like Brexit, after the Voice referendum it will take many years for the country to come back together again regardless of the outcome, writes...
The Liberal Party should study UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rather than tacking like a yacht to accommodate trends, fashions and fads.
If corporate elites want to prosper, they need to get back to their core business of providing quality goods and services to the punters and get out...