Julie Bishop risks a diplomatic distraction

The foreign minister is about to embark on a wasteful attempt to channel Nostradamus.

Malcolm Turnbull to attend UN summit – guess who will be there too

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Back-to-back summits offer Turnbull an important chance to redefine the tarnished view of him as a leader. Just watch out for Kevin.

Hope trumped by reality

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The wife of a former president should definitely be the next leader of the United States. It's just a pity the wrong woman is running for election.

Exposing the ridiculous slur of 'radical Islam'

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The trap is choice of language, of the words-are-bullets variety. How to best describe the terrorist threat, and by extension, how to craft a policy to extinguish it.

Lone wolf attacks almost impossible to predict

An organised plot leaves a long trail that can be detected by authorities – but it's enormously difficult to pick up on an angry loner until it's too late.

Neighbourly advice no help to PNG

Australia, a wealthy champion of liberal democracy, is busily encouraging a poor nation already straining with internal troubles to buck the local law. How neighbourly.

Australia's Pacific screw-up

The boats have stopped but detention centres and dodgy deals with dubious regimes have created new problems that must be solved.

Why we should care about bribery and corruption in the oil industry

The huge wealth of the industrialised West cannot be divorced from its history of exploitation, nor its modern day form of colonialism - corruption.

Tough talk needs to be matched by good deeds

Daniel Flitton launches an assault on the premise we need lots more big guns.