After the killing of more than 150 schoolchildren in southern Iran, memories of a visit to Isfahan in 2018 return with ...
From Afghanistan to Iraq and Libya, repeated military interventions have weakened rather than strengthened US power. With new ...
For Anthony Albanese – as well as Mark Carney and Keir Starmer – to go along with Trump and Netanyahu’s cynical ploy negates any sense of moral authority we possess – a catastrophe for the rules-based ...
The widening conflict in the Gulf has exposed Australia’s extreme reliance on imported oil. With minimal fuel reserves and a $12 billion annual diesel subsidy to mining, energy security has become a ...
Mark Pirie is a trauma psychologist and independent researcher. From Afghanistan to Iraq and Libya, repeated military interventions have weakened rather than strengthened US power. With new strikes on ...
The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has begun by adopting the IHRA definition as uncontroversial. Yet that definition – and its application to criticism of Israel – remains ...
Mocking a prime minister for wishing Chinese Australians a happy new year says less about foreign policy than about how national identity is being weaponised in domestic politics.
The Coalition is trying to turn migration into a political flashpoint. But the long-term net overseas migration target under Labor is identical to the one projected under the Morrison government.
Israel has once again entered war to solve its “existential problems once and for all”. History suggests those promises of total victory rarely survive contact with reality.
The US–Israel strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader have pushed the Middle East into open war. But regime change in ...
Anthony Albanese’s refusal to assist Australian women and children in Syrian detention camps may prove to be the defining act ...
The Red Alert “panel of national security experts” in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age screamed on March 7, 2023 that we had to be ready for war with China in three years’ time.