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Essays & Reportage
Another ferocious summer
Alessandro Antonello
4 March 2020
As the season’s last scientific resupply journeys are made to Antarctica, a visitor observes the deepening impact of climate change
Summer season
Homeland insecurities
Jane Goodall
28 February 2020
Television
• At heart,
Homeland
is a drama of loyalty and betrayal
National Affairs
ASIO’s home truths
Paul Barratt
27 February 2020
The security agency’s first public threat assessment was fine, as far as it went
National Affairs
Face to face with the future
Jack Maxwell
18 October 2019
Questions need to be asked about the federal government’s embrace of facial recognition technology
Books & Arts
Eighty-two counterterrorism laws, and counting
Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
9 October 2019
Books
| Veteran journalist Brian Toohey probes the network of laws and agencies that’s expanded rapidly in the name of national security
Essays & Reportage
An indiscreet dinner with a Soviet spy
Frank Bongiorno
26 September 2019
Former Labor national secretary David Combe, who died this week, found himself in the middle of a maelstrom in March 1983, just as his party was taking government
Books & Arts
A strategist turns his guns on defence
Nicholas Stuart
9 July 2019
Books
| Hugh White draws on his insider knowledge to pose all the right questions
Essays & Reportage
How mateship made way for freedom, democracy and rule of law
John Fitzgerald
5 July 2019
Australia’s diplomatic language has evolved during a period of instability and risk, but is practice following?
International
American disruption, Saudi logic
Ross Burns
25 June 2019
Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump is doing the crown prince’s bidding
National Affairs
Hyperbole meets hypocrisy when governments take on (some) leakers
Rodney Tiffen
19 June 2019
There are leaks that are properly investigated, and leaks that aren’t
National Affairs
Shooting the messengers
Hamish McDonald
6 June 2019
This week’s AFP raids fit a pattern of crackdowns under the Coalition
Essays & Reportage
WikiLeaks deconstructed
Rodney Tiffen
18 April 2019
The upsides and downsides of the organisation and its controversial founder
Correspondents
The fall and rise of German angst
Klaus Neumann
16 April 2019
A decade ago, that distinctive national mood seemed to have died out. And then came the rise of far-right populism
National Affairs
Australia’s own border wall
Peter Mares
11 March 2019
Our “state of exception” combines disturbing practices, cost blowouts and chaotic administration
National Affairs
Julie Bishop was (half) right
Brian Toohey
21 February 2019
The convention that neither side of politics comments on the operation of intelligence agencies really only benefits agencies, the government and (sometimes) the opposition
National Affairs
Power, in black and white
Sophie Black
22 August 2018
From the archive
| A man who seems relaxed about making life-and-death decisions might not be the best person to wield greater power
Correspondents
The elephant in the bedroom
Jonathan Malloy
13 July 2018
Canadians find themselves caught in an uncomfortably close relationship with Donald Trump’s America
Essays & Reportage
China and Australia’s fifth icy age
Graeme Dobell
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
National Affairs
A Macron moment
Natalie J. Doyle
3 May 2018
Macronmania came to Australia this week, but back in France the president might be facing his “Thatcher moment”
National Affairs
In Vanuatu, it’s he says, Xi says
Graeme Smith
13 April 2018
And the truth about China’s intentions probably lies somewhere between
Correspondents
Russia’s war on history
David Hayes
30 March 2018
How a poison attack in an English cathedral city became an international diplomatic crisis
National Affairs
ASEAN and Australia peer down from the summit
Graeme Dobell
19 March 2018
Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney
Books & Arts
Asia’s rise: the rules and the rulers
Graeme Dobell
15 February 2018
Review essay
| As the regional balance continues to shift, resolving the tension between history and geography is becoming more urgent for Australia
National Affairs
Withheld, pending advice
Tim Sherratt
2 February 2018
Three snapshots of Australia’s national archives reveal delays and anomalies in public access
International
Iran, Trump and the art of deal-breaking
John Tilemann
16 October 2017
White House decisions are making life harder for America’s allies, and not just in the Middle East
Books & Arts
A history of violence
Anne Aly
3 October 2017
Books
| Islamic State has become adept at recruiting those who are already attracted to violence
International
Managing the Hermit Kingdom
Jingdong Yuan
7 September 2017
Beijing’s response to North Korea is constrained by its own security concerns
International
A costly bluffing game
Hugh White
31 July 2017
Empty threats by the Trump administration are serving Beijing’s interests
Books & Arts
The fearfully pragmatic heart of Australian diplomacy
Graeme Dobell
20 June 2017
Books
| Australia’s diplomatic capabilities are about to be tested again
International
“Offensive, defensive, everything”
Andy Butfoy
9 March 2017
Character and content can be hard to disentangle in assessing Donald Trump’s international security policies
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