In the lead-up to the last federal election I wrote that Scott Morrison was avoiding questions about dysfunction in the Liberal Party, stagnating wages, and higher living costs. His message …

There is a much greater understanding in Cyprus today of the importance of the diaspora and its role in helping secure a just resolution of the Cyprus issue. This is …

“GIVE war a chance.” That is the message being attributed to pro-Russian demonstrators in Europe. And there are more of them than you might think. A few days ago, I …

Kimberley Kitching was due to give the Fiona Richardson Memorial Lecture on 15 March. In 2017 when Fiona died, I wrote that in the rough and tumble of politics, you …

A few years ago I recounted in these pages a comment made to me by the then Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Synch. It was made during my visit to …

Voters beware. Decisions will be made by these new governments that will set the stage for the next decade and beyond to such things as our responses to climate change, …

In the hit series Boss, Chicago mayor Tom Kane, played by Kelsey Grammer, reflects on a foundational mayor of that great city, Anton Cermak, who brought together the warring tribes, …

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has brought forward the date for the closure of Greece’s last coal fired power stations to 2025. Whilst this is admirable in terms of addressing …

The editor of the Herald Sun, Sam Weir, while introducing the paper’s Mission Zero special reports, noted that: “The climate change debate in Australia has often been used as a …

Matthew Guy 2.0 and the ongoing IBAC debacle have improved the Liberals’ chances, but not enough to win. Mr Guy has learnt the value of quietly putting a message of …