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The end of the charm offensive
John LeeOctober 26, 2010Foreign Policy

Later this week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Hanoi to attend the...

The stakes at the East Asia summit
John LeeOctober 26, 2010The Wall Street Journal Asia

In Asia today, the source of America’s strategic pre-eminence is not just the dominance of...

The Polish Shipyard of the South Pacific redux?
October 22, 2010

New Zealand's recent economic growth figures were not encouraging. The economy is lurching along, and...

New Zealand’s great regression
Luke MalpassOctober 20, 2010The American, Journal of the American Enterprise Institute

Over a year ago in Auckland, the humorist P.J. O’Rourke gave a dinner lecture for...

GST and the Ratchet Effect
October 15, 2010

On 1 October, New Zealand got a new tax system. Lowering the tax rate and...

MMP – The doubts keep coming
October 1, 2010

Last week's, the Sunday Star Times' breathless revelation that Prime Minister John Key wants a...

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Economic challenges ahead for the government
Robert Carling, Gene Tunny, Peter TulipJune 19, 2025IA153

The re-elected federal government faces a long list of economic challenges, some of them created...

The ties that bind. Reconciling value pluralism and national identity
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2025AP81

Executive summary Australia’s multicultural democracy is under increasing pressure, not only from economic uncertainty but...

How to vandalise savings: the new superannuation tax
Robert CarlingJune 5, 2025IA152

Introduction The Albanese Labor government’s new tax geared to individuals’ total superannuation balances was unveiled...

Riches from Royalties: How Australia’s states and territories depend on mining
Gene TunnyMay 15, 2025PP61
Royalty payments by mining companies for extracting resources, including large volumes of fossil fuels, are...
Rooftop solar: paradise lost
Zoe Hilton, Michael Wu , Aidan MorrisonMarch 24, 2025AP80
Rooftop solar has been lauded by energy market bodies, policymakers, the media and environmental groups...
The Darkest Path: The Puzzling Resilience of Antisemitism. Acton Lecture 2025
Rabbi Benjamin EltonMarch 19, 2025OP206

Foreword The annual Acton Lecture, presented by the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at...

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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