News
Australia’s “unlucky” prejudice
In 1964, when Donald Horne wrote the immortal words “The Lucky Country” it was not a compliment, it was meant as a wake-up call to Australians about misguided national attitudes and our place in this […]
Opinion
News
AUKUS: The “McAlliance”
The AUKUS pact may have strategic merits but US culture, investment and its brands already abound across China. Kerry Brown asks, in its current form, is this Anglo-centric trilateral pact a united front or mainly […]
News
Racist race to federal polls
Many see AUKUS as a timely gambit to create a “khaki election” campaign for a floundering Coalition government—it’s also potentially a dog whistle effort to deploy racism to maintain power 17 October 2021 | Lucy […]
News
Cultural illiterates: Australian leaders can’t read the signs in Asia
Fear of China is rooted in Australian history; and China’s current leadership has done little to abate those fears. However, our policymakers are ensuring we remain the ‘lonely continent’, adrift in an Asia we don’t […]
News
Morrison’s “Hunt for Red China”
The PM’s hunt for nuclear submarines to push back against China has put off the Europeans, raised eyebrows in South East Asia and annoyed the Russians. With more sub plots than a Hollywood blockbuster, Michael […]
Comment
Nuclear “sub-standard”
The US Navy and Britain’s Royal Navy can’t maintain their own nuclear submarines so how is Australia, a nation with no expertise in nuclear powered vessels, going to maintain its attack submarines? 23 September 2021 […]
News
Star spangled propaganda
The rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air, gave proof through the night that ASPI will be there in Washington DC 20 September 2021 | Marcus Reubenstein O say can you see, by the […]
News
That Fella Down Under!
Scott Morrison’s AUKUS deal designed to win election, not make Australia safe 17 September 2021 | Michael West MW Media (Image: Marcus Reubenstein) Strap in for a media blitz on the threat from China. Prime […]
News
The ‘forever submarines’ go nuclear
The nuclear submarine deal intensifies Australia’s military cooperation with the US. It will be up to our regional neighbours to decide whether, as Scott Morrison says, the deal will help and not hinder them. 17 […]
Business
Guarded comments
High Court ruling on Facebook comments a high risk for publishers; high time for reform 16 September 2021 | Kim Wingerei, MW Media In its recent ruling the High Court decreed publishers have responsibility for […]
News
Trading places, exports for security
Does Australia continue to provoke and insult China not so much to hurt our biggest trading partner as to motivate our most important ally—the United States—to maintain a strong economic and military presence in the […]
Feature
Who takes weight of racism?
Ordinary Chinese-Australians are being forced to carry both the weight of racism and suspicion on their backs—much of the abuse has emanated from our institutions 16 October 2021 | Words and Main Image by Marcus […]
News
Like-minded democracies
Scott Morrison loves to praise India as a wonderful democracy—Australia’s QUAD ally with shared values. Brian Toohey writes the reality is that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is a horror story. […]
News
A culture of secrecy
As has been widely observed, Prime Minister Morrison is obsessed with secrecy. Former head of the Prime Ministers’ Department, Michael Keating argues this obsession damages both the policy capability of government and the integrity of […]
News
ASPI’s social media strategic blunder
A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has blown up in the face of the weapons maker-funded think tank after it tried to muzzle public comments on Twitter 27 July 2021 | Marcus […]