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U.S.'s Asia Policy Is Working ... For Now - Michael Auslin, National Review

Walter Russell Mead’s column in the Wall Street Journal last week praises America’s bipartisan policy in Asia, claiming that it may be as influential as NATO or the Marshall P...

The Race for Antarctica - Sam Bateman & Anthony Bergin, The Australian

With the announcement of an increased US military presence in Australia, our strategic planners are focused on the rising importance of the Indo-Pacific. But we have taken our eye ...

Indo-Pacific Triangle Can Be Regional Force - Lohman & Curtis, Australian

The US, Australia and India have intersecting, not identical interests. Geography alone dictates that we see the world from different angles. But there is enough commonality that...

Can Australia Afford to Follow U.S. in Asia? - Hugh White, Sydney M.H.

Nine years ago, Australia was a full and eager partner in American plans to invade Iraq. That turned out to be a very grave strategic mistake. Now, as the last of the US occupying...

The Anglosphere Still Reigns Supreme - Neil Reynolds, Globe and Mail

Britain still stands apart from Europe, its alternative destiny, and the notion no longer seems quite so quaint. Note the U.S. decision a few weeks ago to build a forward militar...

India on the Highway to Prosperity - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

When you drive down the highway from Delhi to Jaipur you begin to feel the sheer scale of India's economic development. It's an enormous highway. It might be six lanes wide or eigh...

A U.S.-Australia-India Anti-China Axis? - John Yi, China Power

A recent multi think-tank publication entitled “Shared Goals, Converging Interests: A Plan for U.S.–Australia–India Cooperation in the Indo–Pacific,” has apparently been ...

Why Are Britons Quitting Australia? - Mark Bosworth, BBC News

Thousands of Britons emigrate to Australia every year in search of a better life, but now more and more are deciding down under is not for them and returning home. The same trend s...

Australia's U.S.-China Balancing Act - Iain McCalman, Bloomberg

Barack Obama’s visit to Australiaprompted the people of Darwin to take out $50,000 worth of insurance to cover him against the risk of a crocodile attack. The gesture seemed to d...

What Australia Has to Do With Syria - Will Inboden, Shadow Government

"What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?" famously asked the early church father Tertullian. His question in the third century addressed the relationship between the reason of Greek...

Obama Not Making the Case in Australia - Rory Medcalf, The Interpreter

So Obama has left his mark on the Australia-US alliance: a whirlwind visit, an historic speech on Asia strategy, an important shift towards US military access, and a genuine messag...

U.S. Can't Afford Asian Security Free-Riders - Greg Scoblete, The Compass

It makes absolutely no sense today - in an era where Asia is projected to enjoy strong economic growth and America isn't - to underwrite the defense of any Asian state, much less...

Semper Fi to the Shores of Darwin - Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald

Obama said the U.S. would co-operate with China where it could, but clearly marked out the clash of values....

Australia's Economic Destiny With China - Graham Richardson, Australian

I trust that as we heap accolades upon Barack Obama during his visit here, we are reassuring the Chinese that our door remains open to them....

Obama's Clever Base Move Down Under - Raoul Heinrichs, The Diplomat

Obama just convinced Australia to carry a heavier load....

U.S., China Must Share Asia Power - Hugh White, Sydney Morning Herald

There are two competing visions of Asia's future now. China's vision is that America will slowly fade as a strategic power in Asia, leaving China as the region's new uncontested le...

Canberra, Australia's Pro-American City - Graeme Dobell, The Interpreter

US presidents arriving in Australia always cause the locals to hear military echoes. Driving in from Canberra airport, Obama can glance to his right and see a striking symbol of th...

Australia: America's Dream Ally - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

WHEN Barack Obama arrives in Australia tomorrow he will be visiting his dream ally. As America's staunch European allies grapple with economic Armageddon, and beg the US for reso...

What a U.S. Base in Australia Means for Asia - Max Fisher, The Atlantic

What Obama's plan to build a marine base here means for China, Japan, Afghanistan, and global politics....

Australia Needs Nuclear Subs - Ross Babbage, The Diplomat

Advanced submarines offer special strategic leverage in the more demanding security environment that’s in store. The best submarines are highly survivable in intense military ope...

Qantas Crisis Has Roots in Gillard's Labor Rules - Paul Sheehan, SMH

At the very pointy end of those huge Qantas flagships, the Airbus A380s, the senior captain has a lot of training, experience and responsibility. He is also earning a lot of money...

Abbott Set to Lead Australia, But How? - Mungo MacCallum, ABC Australia

Tony Abbott spent the weekend telling anyone who would listen (including the Queen, who had to) that he was ready for government. He was, he insisted, no longer the impetuous y...

It's Almost 'Tony Time' in Australia - Tom Dusevic, The Australian

Abbott the grassroots champion has been working this shtick for 35 years. When he faced off against Gillard last year at Rooty Hill RSL in a community forum in western Sydney i...

Julia Gillard's Great Leap Backwards - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

In every sense, the carbon tax is a perfect 70s reform. In the McMahon and Whitlam eras, the national debate was entirely around the redistribution of national income. It was not...

Australia Leaves Britain in Its Past - Oscar Humphries, Daily Telegraph

This week, the Queen has embarked on her 15th visit to Australia, an 11‑day tour that takes in Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. During the course of her reign, she ha...

Gillard's Fall from Grace Began With a Coup - Niki Savva, The Australian

Having said yes when she should have said no, it was incumbent on her to prove she was better in every way. Instead she made a succession of mistakes and inexplicably continued t...

Burma Will Improve Human Rights - Kevin Rudd, The Australian

In the past six months, Burma's President Thein Sein has been starting to say some of the right things about the need for reform, and enough has been said for us to dare to believe...

China, Russia Now Responsible for Syria - Kevin Rudd, Sydney Morning Hld

Believe it - the human cry for freedom and democracy is universal. In Tunisia, what began as a single man's protest, so desperate that he set himself on fire, became a symbol of ...

America's Pacific Century - Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy

The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action....

Australia's Asian Future - Shiro Armstrong, East Asia Forum

Australia at last is taking up the challenge of comprehensively thinking through its new strategic circumstance in Asia, and taking Asia seriously....

The Slow Move to Replace Julia Gillard - Dennis Shanahan, The Australian

For a variety of reasons the strategies of those intent on removing Gillard and those intent on defending her position are coalescing with the same aim, that Gillard will remain ...

Aussie Women Have No Place in Combat - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

A NATION that sends its women into front-line combat, into close infantry, hand-to-hand fighting and killing, is a nation that either doesn't take combat seriously or doesn't take ...

The Rise and Fall of Australia - Nick Bryant, The Australian

Australia is clearly in the right place at the right time, a modish phrase that during the next decade or so may even become the new national mantra....

Australia Mulling Its China Card - Michael Sutton, The Diplomat

Australians recently remembered the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington with solemnity, respect, and reflection. Responding as they did to this day of infamy und...

Fighting China in the Pacific Theater - Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy

This week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to San Francisco to meet with their counterparts from Australia. The occasion was the anniversa...

Carbon Tax Will Define Australia's Politics - Paul Kelly, The Australian

THERE is a brave fatalism about Julia Gillard - from the weakest ever position of any prime minister she introduced this week the complex carbon pricing bills, the reform that will...

Poison Pills in Australia's Carbon Tax - Henry Ergas, The Australian

Provisions that merely hinder future parliaments have long been viewed as abhorrent, as they undermine the democratic process. But they are especially harmful where uncertainties...

Can Australia Really Trust America? - Raoul Heinrichs, The Interpreter

Author profile Previous posts by Raoul Heinrichs - 14 September 2011 2:08PM In San Francisco this week, Australian and American leaders will mark the 60th anniver...

Obama and Gillard Share Many Traits - William Pesek, Bloomberg

It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state and change the subject....

How 9/11 Deepened U.S.-Australia Alliance - Paul Kelly, The Australian

THE 9/11 decade has cast a profound yet paradoxical spell over Australia. It empowered John Howard, brought Australia closer to both America and Indonesia, created a new national s...

U.S. Military Embraces Australia - Graeme Dobell, The Interpreter

Australia's Defence Minister says the military basing deal with the US to be unveiled next week will be the biggest step in the alliance in 30 years. Given that the AUSMIN (Austra...

London Riots' Lessons for Australia - Alan Moran, New Geography

Many commentators correctly attribute the UK rioting to decades of misgoverning and miseducating youth. Contributing to this has been the breakdown of family discipline, the replac...

The Curtain's Closing on Gillard Experiment - Niki Savva, The Australian

EVEN though they know it's over, senior Labor figures have formed a Praetorian guard around their faded empress. Even though they cannot say it publicly yet, and she cannot bear ...

Abbot Can Lead Australia Abroad - Greg Sheridan, The Australian

FOR a supposedly populist politician focused on domestic issues, foreign affairs has played a central role in Tony Abbott's rise and political ascendancy. Just after he became O...

It's a Bear Market World - The Australian

Three years after the credit excesses that led to the global financial crisis, the globe has been hit with another financial reckoning and realignment of economic power. Whether ...

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