President Donald Trump has upped the ante in America’s longest-running war, but it is not clear whether an all-guns-blazing strategy will bring the long-running conflict any nearer to a conclusion. In…

Here's a question in light of the near disintegration of the parliamentary process in the past week: what do the late Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, and Jeff Kennett have in common?

While foreign ministers of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Manila to celebrate the 50th anniversary of...

Here's one of the immutable laws of Australian political journalism.

Elections are meat and drink of this political class, only trumped by a leadership challenge in which blood is...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson came to the Sydney Town Hall on Thursday night for an event organised by the Lowy Institute. Judging by a rapturous reception, he beguiled a crowd of journalists…

Observing the deliberations of Malcolm Turnbull's Indigenous Referendum Council, Aesop might have said: A mountain emitting terrible noises was said to be in labor. But as people watched to...

If the home affairs office is as unwieldy as its US counterpart, we might be about to take one step forward and two steps back.

If you found yourself these days in the quiet of the evening in the vicinity of the Prime Minister's Memorial Garden in Melbourne's General Cemetery you might be ...

Vexed argument in the Labor Party about relations with Israel is set to come to a head at the conference later this month of the party’s dominant New South Wales branch. Barring the successful intervention…

When Donald Trump and other world leaders convene in Hamburg this week for the Group of Twenty (G20) annual summit it will be...