High Ground cast members Jack Thompson,Witiyana Marika and Simon Baker at the film’s premiere at the Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in 2020.

The movie that erased my doubts about the Voice

If there was someone on the Labor side who needed assurance,it might have been me – but not after the opening scene of this one film.

  • Bob Carr

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AUKUS leaders Anthony Albanese,Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak in San Diego in March. Labor’s internal debate over the pact has been deferred until the national conference in August.

Australia’s biggest AUKUS risk? Our allies’ Plan B

There is no precedent for building a submarine hull in one country,installing another country’s technology and assembling it in a third which has no nuclear expertise.

  • Bob Carr
Anthony Albanese’s bromance with Joe Biden has yet not delivered any progress in Julian Assange’s bid to thwart extradition to the United States.

If Albanese’s such a buddy of Biden’s,why is Assange still in jail?

Australia under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in danger of looking like a client state of the USA. It’s all give,and no take.

  • Bob Carr
A missile is launched from an unspecified location in China in response to US Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August.

We’ve long said no to the US on Taiwan. Saying yes now would tempt nuclear attack

A former Australian foreign affairs minister says we must preserve our right to say no to joining any future war against China.

  • Bob Carr
Australian and Chinese ministers are talking again.

Australia can safely improve its relations with China. Here’s how

Australia’s relationship with China has sharply deteriorated since 2017. But there are initiatives we can,should and must deploy to improve bilateral ties.

  • Bob Carr
Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in May. On Friday the British government ordered his extradition to the US.

If Albanese asks for Assange’s freedom,Biden has every reason to agree:Bob Carr

Australia’s former Labor foreign affairs minister writes that this is the new prime minister’s moment to tell the US president what he has already declared publicly about the Assange case:“Enough is enough.”

  • Bob Carr
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Saturday’s election was a test of the strength of national feeling on climate.

On the back of urgency on climate,Australia is tipping centre-left

Climate was a decisive issue in Saturday’s election - and not only in the teal seats.

  • Bob Carr
US marines leave Darwin after a six-month rotation.

The one word that will stop war over Taiwan

A descent into war between the world’s superpowers over a neuralgic issue that diplomacy has constrained for 70 years is the last thing our battered and bruised planet wants.

  • Bob Carr
The US biologist Paul Ehrlich during the broadcast of Monday Conference 50 years ago.

‘Everybody’s scared’:The first mention in Australian media of global warming could only gesture to the future

In an ABC TV studio in 1971,so much ahead was unimaginable.

  • Bob Carr
May well they despair ... speechwriter Graham Freudenberg with former prime minister Gough Whitlam in 2005.

A land of flooding cliches,parched of eloquence:the impoverished vocabulary of Australian politicians

The former foreign affairs minister and longest-serving NSW premier laments what has become of the language of politics.

  • Bob Carr