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Foreign investment will boost food security
Stephen KirchnerJuly 2, 2011The Australian Financial Review

There is perhaps only one issue in federal politics that seemingly unites Labor, coalition, Green...

US will Remain the Preeminent Player in Asia
John LeeJuly 1, 2011China - US Focus

In early May, I gave an interview to the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper arguing...

Beware China’s control of rare earth minerals
John LeeJune 27, 2011The Wall Street Journal

There was a time several years ago when the Australian business community viewed China in...

A Key visit for New Zealand
Luke MalpassJune 24, 2011

It was disappointing that Prime Minister John Key’s visit to Australia was dominated by breathless...

China and the tactical utility of international norms
John LeeJune 22, 2011Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Katherine Morton’s conclusion that we should not expect, much less fear, the imminent arrival of...

Missing the woods for the trees
John LeeJune 21, 2011The Hindustan Times

The consensus among Australian strategic elites is that India will play an important and benign...

An economic walk on the supply side
Michael StutchburyOctober 16, 2025OP208

This is an edited version of Michael Stutchbury’s keynote address to the 2025 Freedom to...

Drawing the Line: Moral Conflict and the Fragility of Liberal Tolerance
Peter KurtiOctober 9, 2025AP90
Liberal democracies face an unprecedented challenge: how to govern societies where citizens no longer disagree...
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
Zoe Hilton, Michael Wu , Aidan MorrisonOctober 2, 2025AP89
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the...
The rule of law, excessive regulation and free speech
Paul TaylorSeptember 11, 2025AP88

Foreword In the day that the 2024 parliamentary session concluded, more than 30 bills were...

Our Prosperity is Slipping Away: Submission to Economic Reform Roundtable 
August 18, 2025AP87

 Introduction As Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser noted last year, it can be...

Addressing Australia’s Productivity Problem. CORE Blueprint to Unshackle Productivity
Jim CoxAugust 14, 2025AP86

Introduction There is no one action that will lift Australia’s dwindling productivity growth; it is...

Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Tom SwitzerMarch 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic...

Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Andrew BlythSeptember 3, 2024SPECTATOR

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive...

It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
Tom SwitzerAugust 10, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have...

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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Tom SwitzerJune 10, 2024MODERN AGE

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired...

Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

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