Australia
Higher taxes could fund a better Australia
Tim Soutphommasane There was irony in the public occasion of Margaret Thatcher's grand funeral procession in London.
Australia and Japan are perfect Pacific partners
Ramesh Thakur Does the US pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against China's growing wealth, power and assertiveness? Few third countries have a bigger stake...
Australia is now a pawn in US-China power plays
Hugh White Whether you see last week's new ''strategic partnership'' with China as a diplomatic triumph or another policy stumble depends on your view of the relationship between America and China.
America wants to know whose side Australia is on
Hugh White Could the United States and China possibly share equal billing in the Asia Pacific?
Remember voters, you can steer Australia's future
Katharine Murphy Politics is itself devaluing the currency of leadership in some attempt to remain one step ahead of opinion polls.
Martin Flanagan
Tasmania is being cast as Australia's Greece
Martin Flanagan Tasmania represents the horror of the Right - a series of coalition governments involving the Greens.
Daniel Flitton
Chief diplomat spells out Australia's rules of engagement
Daniel Flitton A simple equation outlines our nation's place in the world.
Aden Ridgeway
Constitution needs to include Australia's first chapter
Aden Ridgeway I was born when Aboriginal people did not have the vote.
Trevor Grant
Australia must go in to bat for Tamils
Trevor Grant Michael Atherton is a former captain of the England cricket team and now a skilled writer and commentator on the game. He is also a man of conscience.
Tim Soutphommasane
Missing: the great minds of Australia
Tim Soutphommasane Australians have added too little to the global marketplace of ideas.
Britain stamps its boot on Antarctica while Australia sits on its hands
Andrew Darby It might be funny if it wasn't serious. Britain has stamped oversize boots on Antarctica, to the fury of others.
Peter Hartcher
Bully-boy Malaysia immature and Australia's reaction so limp
Peter Hartcher Malaysia's decision to ban an Australian independent senator, Nick Xenophon, tells us a good deal about the state of its government, the world's longest-ruling outside the communist world, as it...
Loaded Dog
Is it time for Australia to allow gay marriage?
Britain's Parliament has just approved gay marriage. And US President Barack Obama alluded to it in his inauguration speech.
Ross Gittins
The four industries that rule Australia
Ross Gittins Like most, I believe in democracy. But I also believe in capitalism, and though the two have usually been seen in the West as a good fit, of late I'm having doubts.
Tim Soutphommasane
Australia's Asian-ness is barely visible
Tim Soutphommasane There are too few Asian-Australians in the rooms that matter.
Australia to deepen US ties by boosting bases
David Wroe THE Defence Minister, Stephen Smith, has flagged in the clearest terms yet that Australia will deepen its long-term involvement in the United States' strategic ''pivot'' to Asia by boosting the role...
Philip Lynch
Australia should use its UN position to make human rights core business
Philip Lynch Australia should commit to using its seat on the United Nations Security Council to promote and protect human rights around the world.
Katharine Murphy
The big question for 2013: who will 'own' middle Australia?
Katharine Murphy The American election campaign is a guide to our own coming contest.
Peter Hartcher
Others take Australia seriously - and we should too
Peter Hartcher Whenever foreign policy enters Australian public debate, a sort of snide smart-alec attitude is never far behind.
Peter Hartcher
Australia the true subject of paper
Peter Hartcher THE Gillard government's white paper doesn't tell us a thing about Asia that hasn't already been rehashed endlessly in a thousand conferences and a million research papers. But that's OK.
