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Australian politicians rarely admit to thwarted ambitions, but Pat Conroy came close in a speech at Newcastle University about the government’s performance in the Pacific. “Things may not go Australia’s way every time,” he href="https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/speeches/2025-11-21/university-newcastle-asia-pacific-public-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofoll...
Given the torrential rainstorms that battered the Brazilian city of Belém as COP30 concluded a couple of weeks ago, it wouldn’t be strictly accurate to say that the dust has settled on the latest UN climate conference. But a new landscape has definitely come into view, and it will involve a fundamental change in perspective for those engaged in international climate politics....
The vengeful, divisive streak in contemporary American politics has prompted a stream of books scrutinising the social disruption and thwarted expectations associated with the rise of Donald Trump. Former political adviser William Galston’s contribution, Anger, Fear, Domination, explores anger as a defining feature of politics in his troubled homeland, focusing on th...
In late 2022 the director of the Adelaide Festival Louise Adler made an unexpected suggestion. She recalled my writing about politics in the plays of Tom Stoppard — why not interview him? After all, Hermione Lee had recently published her definitive Tom Stoppard: A Life. Perhaps we could get the two together, and film the conversation to open that year’s festival?</p...
Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second economic. These days, both are classified as geopol...
