This Month
King to foreigners: start digging for critical minerals
Industrialised countries including Australia will be more interventionist in directing investment to strategic resources projects to break China’s stranglehold.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Opinion
Harris sees a different world from Biden
Joe Biden was a foreign policy veteran, and Kamala Harris is a novice who has impressed quickly. But in age and instinct, her view of the world will be different.
- Ian Bremmer
Australia backs Japan over Chinese spy plane ‘invasion’
Australia, Japan and the US will knit their militaries more tightly together following high-level talks.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- China relations
Japanese fighter jets fly to Darwin as security ties ramp up for China
Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa warns the world is at “a turning point” as she heads to Australia for defence and diplomatic talks.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why has a long-term understanding with Asia eluded us?
Even as Australia has become more multicultural, the best we can manage is a pragmatic relationship punctuated with fits of enthusiasm.
- James Curran
August
- Analysis
- Pacific diplomacy
Drinks and power moves: Inside a week of Pacific diplomacy
At the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, Taiwan booked out the only rooftop bar, China waited in the wings and Australia kept the show on the road.
- Andrew Tillett
How Kamala Harris would rule the world
The Democratic presidential candidate has been training for 21st-century threats: cyber and space warfare, artificially intelligent weapons, and quantum computing.
- Michael Hirsh
The surprising home of Indigenous art in Europe
Indigenous art curator Tina Baum is riding a wave of popularity and curiosity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture
- Tom McIlroy
Albanese’s hot-mic moment exposes US Pacific security plan
Anthony Albanese played down a conversation with a top US official over the Pacific police pact, and questioned a journalist’s ethics for recording the exchange.
- Andrew Tillett
Australia leads push-back against China’s anti-Taiwan campaign
Australia’s Senate has become the first in a campaign by Western parliaments insisting “One China” does not endorse Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.
- Andrew Tillett
Albanese seals new defence pact with Indonesia’s Prabowo
Australia will lock in deeper military ties with Indonesia amid rising regional tensions with China.
- Andrew Tillett
Albanese reaches out early to Indonesia’s new president
Prabowo Subianto has been touring key regional capitals ahead of his elevation in October to Jakarta’s top job.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
‘Commonsense’ approach used to deport Kiwi criminals
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand have discussed closer defence co-operation, cybersecurity and the creation of an NRL team for Papua New Guinea.
- Tom McIlroy
Second diplomat caught trapping staff in Canberra
Himalee Arunatilaka, Sri Lanka’s former deputy high commissioner to Australia, denied her employee minimum pay and conditions for more than two years, the Federal Court found.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- AUKUS
Albanese is losing the AUKUS debate
The government is prioritising platitudes over substance as critics question the $368 billion nuclear submarine project.
- James Curran
Talks sanction more US bombers, fighter jets, spy planes in Australia
Annual defence and foreign affairs talks will see Australia deepen its role as the US’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in a potential conflict with China.
- Andrew Tillett and Matthew Cranston
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Australian ambassador shared work space with TikTok and a dog trainer
Australia’s ambassador to Ukraine worked out of a WeWork building in Warsaw amid fears Russian missile attacks make it too unsafe to go back to Kyiv.
- Andrew Tillett
July
- Exclusive
- Defence spending
The ‘criminal price tag’ for the navy’s new warships is $4b a pop
A new fleet of frigates will cost almost $4 billion each, even before weapons are fitted, it can be revealed, making them the navy’s most expensive warship.
- Andrew Tillett
Quad expands maritime coverage to combat China aggression
Quad member countries will expand their maritime data sharing program as China’s aggression in critical waterways ramps up.
- Staff reporters
The democratic project is backsliding, warns O’Neil
Many countries are becoming less democratic as new strains of nationalism emerge around the world, the Home Affairs Minister said.
- Tom McIlroy
