John Carlson AM was Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office from 1989 to his retirement in 2010. His current affiliations include Senior Associate Fellow, ...

“Australia and the territories under its control have become increasingly important to the US defence and space establishments in recent years as a site for satellite tracking stations, nuclear test ...

An industry networking day in Canberra this week laid bare a simple truth: politics is still beating economics in Australia’s China policy. Facing a rapidly evolving global economy shaped by ...

Now is the sinister time of year when the Barons of Big Oil gather together, under the auspices of the United Nations and with the blessing of most world leaders, to celebrate the 350 million needless ...

In an extract from The Double Dismissal, Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking, distinguished fellow of the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, and Dr Matt Harvey, senior lecturer at ...

In the week that Labor is struggling to pass its environmental legislation, the death of Graham Richardson is a reminder that, as Labor environment minister, he oversaw the passage of the biggest ...

If anyone had any lingering doubts about the change in the world order, the sight of President Trump pumping his fist into the air at the doorway of Air Force One, before turning his back on Asia to ...

“Steve Bannon motivating Democratic voters,” said one historian in response to comments by the former Trump White House adviser. Far-right podcaster and former top presidential adviser Steve Bannon ...

The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If ...

Life in Beijing in 1975 was not easy and the events leading up to the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November piled on the pressure. There were practical problems and there was existential ...

A/Prof Milad Haghani is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Geospatial Transport Planning Lead at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA).