Malcolm Turnbull was no doubt relieved when the prime ministerial jet lifted off from Australian soil yesterday, bound for the United States and his first formal round of discussions in Washington with an American president.

Here's some advice for Malcolm Turnbull ahead of his visit to Washington later this month for talks with Donald Trump: remember the Goldilocks and Three Bears Rule when dealing with American presidents.

Mark Butler may not have much of a political profile outside his home state of South Australia, but as national president of the Australian Labor Party his...

From an Australian perspective, shifting power in the Indo-Pacific will be of primary importance in 2018 and beyond.

Well, that didn't take long. When provocateur-in-chief Paul Keating goaded Malcolm Turnbull into putting the republic issue back on the agenda for about five minutes it told you...

Bill Shorten is long way from the record of Harold Wilson, Britain's prime minister between 1964-70 and 1974-76, but in one respect he would identify with a much-quoted Wilson observation.

Australia’s 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper is a document which seeks to thread the needle between the country’s need to bolster its security ties with...

The Sam Dastyari episode underscores the need for clear-cut rules to prevent those with links to foreign governments from using money to influence the

Hugh White, a provocateur among his academic colleagues, publishes a Quarterly Essay this week that reads like a...