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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.

Illustration: Dionne Gain

'Caliphate' closer than we thought

Australia has 1000 troops in the Middle East and a squadron of jets fighting to crush the "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq. It's time for Australia to take extra precautions nearer home.

Illustration: Dionne Gain

Why Albanese benefits from the UK election result

The Corbyn experience will also be used by allies of the Left faction's Anthony Albanese to put him forward as the candidate of "authenticity" in contrast to the scripted Labor leader Bill Shorten.

A Chinese H-6K bomber patrols the islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

China has defied the rules with impunity

We hear a great gush of affirmations of the "rules-based order" that keeps the peace in the Asia-Pacific region. But whose rules? They must be Tinkerbell's rules – clap if you believe.