History repeats: another despot rises to the top
Most pundits might have misread the US election. But one pundit read it very clearly, and well ahead of Tuesday.
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Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a Gold Walkley award winner, a former foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Washington, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His latest book is The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away. His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the economic slump that followed.
Rehab or fight club: America is facing two stark choices
In the grand sweep of world events, the US election is a choice between two different approaches to managing the decline of US dominance.
Turnbull should look north to get out of his funk
When Malcolm Turnbull grasps Joko Widodo's hand to welcome him to Australia on Sunday, it will crystallise a remarkable contrast of political fortunes since they two leaders met in Jakarta year ago.
Asia's Donald Trump has turned the tables on our region
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In Barnabyland, the bumpkin calls the shots
The Nationals aren't thriving despite the fact that Barnaby Joyce looks like a bumpkin, but because he looks like a bumpkin.
Labor loses a leader who outlasted many
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
How a Chinese businessman is buying Hollywood
On Friday, China's richest man bought part-ownership of Sony Pictures, one of the Big Six movie studios that dominate Hollywood. He's the same man who last year bought Hoyts with its 450 screens in Australia.
Australia is on the cusp of a dangerous crisis
The Western world this week crossed a threshold into a new intolerance. Australia, which has been spared the worst of the economic and social disarray of the US and Europe in the last decade, nonetheless seems to have crossed the ugly threshold too.
Julie Bishop's next assignment: the education of Donald Trump
Julie Bishop is ready for her next assignment – the education of Donald Trump.
The Chinese territorial claim we should really be worried about
A war would be disastrous for all; but with such underlying animosity dating back centuries, it could well prove popular in both countries.
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