Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s rejection of an invitation to attend the NATO summit in Washington joins a growing list of dubious decisions.
Anthony Albanese was expected to attend next week’s summit marking NATO’s 75th anniversary but Defence Minister Richard Marles will now travel to the US in his place.
The risk of foreign disruption has to be balanced in such a way that economic activity is not unnecessarily curtailed.
The problem facing Australia’s foreign policy under another Donald Trump presidency? Many of his utterances seem shaped by 1950s American daytime games shows.
The former England left-arm spinner conducted a series of awkward interviews after declaring he would stand as a candidate at the next general election.
The comments come after Trump bragged he once told a NATO member that he would “encourage” Russia to do as it wishes to “delinquent” allies.
Britain’s “Indo-Pacific tilt” is likely to tilt back towards concerns closer to home when Labour takes the reins.
The failure to respond to Ukraine’s request for a humanitarian shipment is a wasted opportunity to reassert Australia’s support for the beleaguered nation.
Joe Biden is handling global crises well,but there is no guarantee he will be the Democratic nominee for the next presidency.
The closer convergence of the NATO nations and the Indo-Pacific democracies will continue but that does not equate to a NATO presence in the region,nor should it.
Differences of opinion aren’t the end of democracy;they are its foundation. There is incredible strength in a system that can criticise itself.