Hamish McDonald
Hamish McDonald was the Asia-Pacific Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. He has been a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Beijing and has twice won Walkley Awards, and had a report on Burma read into the record of the US Congress. He is the author of books on Indonesia and India, and was made an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of Inernational Affairs in 2008.
Hamish McDonald
Carr will find a neighbourhood in flux
Hamish McDonald One of the pastimes in our foreign policy circles in coming months will be comparing Bob Carr's words as foreign minister with the thoughts expressed previously on his copious blog, Thoughtlines with...
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Daunting marines in search of a home
Hamish McDonald It was a supremely awkward encounter. At a government cocktail party in Tokyo in 1980, I found myself talking to the ambassador of Iran.
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Pollies wax poetic on Afghan quagmire
Hamish McDonald THIS week's debate on Afghanistan had many highlights, including the The 7.30 Report's presenter, Kerry O'Brien, virtually presenting the Greens leader Bob Brown with a white feather for daring to...
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Our virtuous nuclear posture
Hamish McDonald Kevin Rudd's government has been anxious to reburnish the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation credentials Canberra tried to build up in the Hawke and Keating years.
