Stan Grant
Stan Grant is ABC's Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst.
He is one of Australia's most respected and awarded journalists, with more than 30 years experience in radio and television news and current affairs. Stan has a strong reputation for independence and integrity and has interviewed international political and business leaders, including our own prime ministers and senior ministers. Prior to taking up his latest role Stan served for a decade as a Senior International Correspondent for CNN in Asia and the Middle East, broadcasting to an audience of millions around the world. Stan is an award winning and best selling author of several books and has contributed articles to many major Australian newspapers, magazines and journals.
The voices we don't hear are the ones we need to seek out Analysis (photos)
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Sitting with the elders of Swan Hill felt a world away from the politics of Canberra.These are the people we don't see; the voices we don't hear, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
The centre has lost Europe. Here's what that means for us all Analysis
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A record number of voters showed up for the European Parliament elections. But they weren't there to support the parties who've typically led European governments, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: elections, community-and-society, world-politics, australia, european-union
Whoever wins on Saturday, we're facing a three-way threat from China Analysis (photos)
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The federal election campaign is reaching the back end, but China has finally found itself on the front page, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, federal-election, federal-elections, federal-government, australia
No-one can say we haven't seen this moment coming, but the West must act Analysis (photos)
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China is shaking up the global order to the point where some analysts see an inevitable conflict with the reigning superpower, America. Can freedom and peace be preserved, asks Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, australia, united-states, china
We're in a war in which the casualties are not strangers — they're our neighbours Analysis
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The latest attacks in New Zealand remind us again — as if we needed reminding — that none of us anywhere, no matter what our faith, our race or our nationality are truly safe. The reactionaries have made it that way, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, terrorism, new-zealand, australia
Kim Jong-un is easy to mock, but the joke is on us Analysis (photos)
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Yes, North Korean leaders are easy to lampoon. Team America was a funny film, but it is a joke that has worn thin. Donald Trump should beware, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: foreign-affairs, defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, world-politics, australia, united-states, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
Forget Trump and his tweets — Kim has a pattern and a plan Analysis (photos)
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While our headlines obsess over the mercurial Donald Trump, recoiling at his tweets and deciphering his tortured syntax, we'd do better to focus on the North Korean leader, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, australia
Australia Day can be a time for hope, not resentment Analysis
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We are told always to remember, but the world is torn apart by conflicts fuelled by the memory of past injustices. Perhaps forgetting is a necessary part of making a nation, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia-day, history, australia
History isn't over. We are witnessing its bloody return Analysis
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Thirty years ago, Francis Fukuyama declared we were seeing the end of history. But 2019 promised the bloody return of history, just on a different continent, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, australia, united-states, china
Which idea of conservatism will Scott Morrison embrace? Analysis
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The failed Dutton putsch in Canberra has only served to expose the schism in the Liberal Party as the "insurgents" seek to capitalise on the fault lines that have ruptured the politics of much of the rest of the world, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: liberals, political-parties, scott-morrison, government-and-politics, australia
Liberal Party's civil war isn't over — it's part of a global battle Analysis
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For a few days Australians seriously reckoned with the idea of Peter Dutton as prime minister. Opinion polls show he may not be popular with the public, but that does not mean the issues he champions are not resonating, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, federal-parliament, federal-government, parliament, scott-morrison, liberals, australia
Indigenous leaders from around the world join in Canberra Analysis (photos)
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Indigenous leaders and thinkers from around the world gather at Canberra's Old Parliament House for the First Nations Governance Forum. They share a history and a journey, and can perhaps help us find a way to live together, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-other-peoples, race-relations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, australia
This week, Trump showed us the potential for hope and disaster Analysis
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In a week when he has insulted allies and praised a dictator, Donald Trump has revealed how he not only grasps this new world but how he intends to navigate it, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, unrest-conflict-and-war, united-states, singapore, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
Trump's America is tired of leadership Analysis
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We never expected to see a North Korean leader sit down one-on-one as an equal with an American president. But Donald Trump is not a President who speaks of the global order. His mantra is America first, and it is a smaller America, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, donald-trump, australia, united-states, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of, asia
Kim Jong-un's Singapore tour a macabre spectacle that offers hope Analysis
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There is little dignified or statesmanlike about Donald Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore — it smacks of diplomacy as opportunism on both sides. Yet it also also offers hope for millions of Koreans, despite the lessons of history, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, donald-trump, world-politics, asia, singapore, united-states, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
Dealmaker Trump meets powerbroker Kim — can they do business? Analysis
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Using his newfound nuclear capabilities, Kim Jong-un has been able to put the squeeze on America and wangle his "hermit kingdom" a seat at the negotiating table with the world's greatest military power, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, donald-trump, world-politics, asia, singapore, united-states, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
What a French philosopher can tell us about reconciliation Analysis
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How does our nation commemorate figures like Captain Cook? How should we remember the frontier wars? Was this continent settled or invaded? These are confronting questions for Australia; history — the unresolved legacy of the past — lies at the heart of reconciliation, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, human-rights, history-education, history, race-relations, world-politics, australia
Meghan Markle is no more 'mixed race' than the rest of us, so why do we care? Analysis
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What race is Meghan Markle? The world has seemed obsessed with the question. Yet we are all mixed race, so it's time to let go of this reductive question, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: world-politics, royal-and-imperial-matters, australia
Kim Jong-un threatening to cancel his Trump talks? Told you so Analysis (photos)
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The future of the Kim-Trump meeting is anyone's guess, but almost two decades of covering this story has taught me one thing: when it comes to North Korea always look to history not hope, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
Kim Jong-un has a plan and it's coming to pass Analysis (photos)
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North Korea is at its most powerful position in its history — and last week's border crossing shows how shrewd and easily underestimated its Supreme Leader is, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
Iran and Israel on a collision course as Syria burns Analysis
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The US-led military strike in Syria will have been keenly felt in Tehran, whose arc of influence now stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, into Lebanon and up to the border of Israel, sparking fears of a world war-level conflict, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, donald-trump, syrian-arab-republic, australia
Trump's 'World War III' attack is coming back to haunt him Analysis
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On the campaign trial in 2016, Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton plan's for Syria would "lead to World War III". Now he may have to revisit his own words, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, australia
How the message of Martin Luther King's 'dream' got lost Analysis
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Martin Luther King Jnr cast an enormous shadow in my childhood. Now, 50 years after his assassination, his message has been softened but there is a call to reclaim Dr King's memory and recommit to his struggle, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, race-relations, religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, human-rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, world-politics, australia
Kim Jong-un's Beijing visit shows China is winning at North Korea diplomacy, not Trump Analysis
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Kim Jong-un's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing sends a powerful message to the US that regional ties run deep, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, donald-trump, jinping-xi, australia
Australia's cheating scandal is about more than cricket Analysis
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Our cricketers are prime examples of economic man: paid millions of dollars, they are guns for hire to the highest bidder, men who play for Australia but represent themselves, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, south-africa, australia
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