Nobody calls Bill Shorten a lapdog anymore
Shorten hasn't set the electorate on fire, but he has managed to restore a battered Labor party.
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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.
The China-India clash that could lead to nuclear war
Each side has some 3000 front-line troops at the disputed border area, and the Chinese have carried out live-fire drills to intimidate their rival.
Turnbull twists and turns but the executioner is near
The PM said 30 losing Newspolls in a row was a death sentence; he's lost 15 already.
No rest in peace: China's net censorship erases dead heroes
Even the phrase "rest in peace" has been comprehensively scrubbed from China's internet since Liu Xiaobo's death.
Australia in search of a match to fire-up energy policy
Without a clean energy target, investors still have no certainty and Australia's energy debacle rolls on.
The real winners from the Iraq invasion
The fall of Mosul is a moment to consider the wider state of the Middle East since the threshold moment when the US-led coalition invaded Iraq.
Australia is defenceless against North Korean missiles
We are not target number one, but there's been no serious thinking about ballistic missile defence.
Australia is wide open to catastrophic cyber attack
Only good luck has protected Australia to date.
Abbott: the fighter in the leadership ring again
The first question that onlookers ask, almost universally, is whether Tony Abbott is serious? Does he really think he can come back as prime minister?
Trump doesn't solve crises, he creates them
The President has already left a trail of wreckage in alliance relationships.
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