This Month
- Opinion
- AUKUS
How to make sure JAUKUS is a success
It’s a no-brainer to bring Japanese technology into AUKUS pillar 2. But it needs to take account of Tokyo’s inexperience and concerns about high-level military co-operation.
- Shingo Yamagami and Paul Maley
- Opinion
- Defence
Minimise capability gap while waiting for the new fleet to surface
Ten years from now, Australia will have its most potent navy in decades. In the interim, it will have the least capable in more than half a century.
- Jennifer Parker
Why Indian workers head to war zones, from Israel to Russia
The promise of well-paid jobs is too strong a lure to resist, despite the lack of protection from their home government and those they work under.
- Swetasree Ghosh Roy
Our world is already ravaged by nuclear war
Annie Jacobsen’s new book, written in the style of a techno-thriller, sets out what might happen if that fateful button is pushed.
- Erik Baker
April
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Fight to the last Ukrainian
More aid is clearly a relief for Kyiv, but will it be enough to reverse the tide of the war?
- James Curran
Failure to reopen Australia embassy in Kyiv ‘an embarrassment’
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles visited Ukraine to unveil the package, including drones and air-defence systems, but there was one glaring omission from his trip.
- Hans van Leeuwen and Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Australia’s embassy should move back to Kyiv
Most other big democracies have moved their diplomats back to the Ukrainian capital. Australia is a notable laggard.
- Michael Fullilove
Thousands join Anzac services as nation seeks to heal
Anzac Day was labelled a chance for Sydney to come together and heal after a series of terrifying knife attacks.
- Gus McCubbing
Kevin Rudd and CNN put on a US tennis clinic
The former prime minister’s shaking mud off his polo and getting on with tennis diplomacy.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Appeasing Iran has proven weak and provocative
If Tehran’s power can be contained and then reduced, the Middle East will be a much more peaceful place.
- Alexander Downer
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
America’s Superman foreign policy flies again
The hard realism of Asian allies about America’s direction must jostle with the return of uncompromising American unilateralism.
- James Curran
- Analysis
- Defence
Marles forced to revise Canberra’s take on far away wars
The Defence Minister has made it clear the government is going to stare down critics who want our troops turning up at every world trouble spot.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- Defence
Defence strategy fills gaps but misses holes
We need to move towards a wider conversation around national security and mobilisation, and be clear on the vulnerability in our capabilities until the late 2030s.
- Jennifer Parker
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Iran’s attack opens up a new world of risk
Iran’s drone and missile strike against Israel didn’t do much damage, but the potential response is unsettling the White House as well as global markets.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Once more to the brink in the Middle East
As the tinder in the Middle East smoulders once more, much will depend on whether Netanyahu lights another match or follows Washington’s calls for restraint.
- James Curran
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Iran’s light show illuminates the real enemy of Mid East peace
Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
The case for comprehensive statecraft
Closer co-operation between government, business and civil society organisations would support more ‘whole-of-nation’ approaches to geopolitical competition.
- Anthony Bubalo
Former Border Force boss rattles the tin, eyes the ASX
The former face of the Coalition’s Stop the Boats campaign wants $20 million to fund his private security outfit’s roll-up of three other companies.
- Updated
- Max Mason
Joe Hockey must be minting money
The former treasurer’s shop has added ex-defence minister Marise Payne and a Japanese diplomat to its roster.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Analysis
- Fumio Kishida
US and Japan build new Asia-Pacific defence ‘latticework’
With an eye to both China and a possible Trump presidency, Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida are writing another chapter in America’s Asian alliance architecture.
- James Curran