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.
Malcolm Turnbull has called for a new structure of relations between the nations of the Indo-Pacific to prevent aggression and preserve peace, broadening beyond the US-centric past.
Australia's long run of economic success bred a complacency that persists to this day.
Scott Morrison is not one of Australia's more popular politicians and only 2 or 3 per cent of voters generally prefer him as Liberal leader.
The Turnbull government is prepared to further intervene in the housing market, Treasurer Scott Morrison says, if the federal budget's housing package fails to calm rising house prices.
"It reminds me of late Gillard, where it didn't matter what she said, nobody was listening."
Barnaby Joyce has broken with cabinet solidarity to blast the Liberal Party.
The WA election was supposed to be One Nation's demonstration of its unstoppable momentum.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is considering a proposal for a major restructuring of the federal government that would create a US-style Department of Homeland Security.
Planning is under way for Malcolm Turnbull to stand side by side with Donald Trump on the deck of a battleship in New York Harbour to affirm the solidarity of the alliance.
Foreign Minister tells China that she doesn't take seriously the Trump administration's threat.
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