President Xi Jinping:China looks to be rolling out its social credit system across more areas of society.

The five core principles for dealing with China under Xi

Is everything fixed? Of course not. Even with patient and effective diplomacy,there will still be disagreements.

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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has called the Voice referendum question “a modest proposal”.

Voice debate reminds me of controversy before I delivered the apology

The PM’s proposal to establish an Indigenous Voice to parliament is modest and appropriate. Yet still some stoke anxiety and fear.

  • Kevin Rudd
Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a pledge to the Chinese Communist Party ahead of the 100th anniversary of its founding in June last year.

Xi Jinping the gambler’s greatest fear isn’t war

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic,deadly and destructive. Unfortunately,it is no longer unthinkable.

  • Kevin Rudd
Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Sydney on Friday.

Now he’s been shamed into going,Morrison must take more than spin to Glasgow

To be credible,Australia should reduce its emissions by about 50 per cent by 2030.

  • Kevin Rudd
Scott Morrison joins US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to announce the defence pact on Thursday.

Morrison’s China ‘strategy’ makes us less,not more,secure

The new defence pact with the US and Britain contains too many unanswered questions,writes the former prime minister.

  • Kevin Rudd
Health Minister Greg Hunt has presided over a medley of pandemic policy failures.

Greg Hunt has failed to vaccinate the nation and must go

Our Westminster parliamentary democracy dictates that Minister Hunt should be held accountable.

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Nades and Priya Murugappan with their daughters Kopica and Tharnicaa.

Morrison needs to summon courage to act on Biloela family

There is no defensible argument for why the Murugappan family shouldn’t return to Biloela. Not one.

  • Kevin Rudd
Tension in the skies. A Taiwanese F-16 flies near a Chinese bomber as it passes near Taiwan in 2020.

Ill-disciplined chest-thumping has put war at centre of what’s left of the Australia-China relationship

The Morrison government has trashed a 50-year convention when it comes to public comment about Taiwan.

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Kevin Rudd believes it is time that the ALP took up the cudgels and beat the Liberal Party and Murdoch media at negative campaigning.

Winning at all costs:Rudd’s case for courage and conflict

The essential lesson for the ALP if we want to win the election is to radically lift our negative game.

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Kiribati has decided to leave the Pacific Islands Forum.

Trouble with paradise:the crisis Australia has hardly noticed

A dramatic schism at an international forum last week could prove strategically disastrous for Australia. And great news for Beijing.

  • Kevin Rudd