May 23, 2022
Anthony Albanese, Australia’s 31st prime minister, is offering a different kind of politics, starting with inclusion not division, writes Geoff Kitney in Canberra The elephant in the room that Australia’s political leaders…
November 15, 2021
The Glasgow COP26 outcome was the best we could have expected – those wanting more and branding it a failure were never going to be satisfied, writes Murray Ritchie. So the enemy…
September 20, 2021
The new alliance is troubling political, military and strategic analysts who are concerned that it was put together at lightning speed with little consultation and in secret, writes Geoff Kitney from Canberra….
August 23, 2021
The UK and Australia may have signed a free trade agreement but how deep does the idea of shared interests run? Geoff Kitney takes a look. All sorts of spin have been…
April 15, 2021
The vaccine wars appear to be just skirmishes ahead of something much bigger – vaccines as weapons in a looming new Cold War, writes Geoff Kitney. Very early on, long before the…
August 26, 2020
Trade relations are testing business leaders everywhere but particularly those whose governments are strongly aligned with the United States, Geoff Kitney writes. Boris Johnson’s China policy journey has come a long way…
March 30, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is testing leaders, governments, parties and political systems everywhere, writes Geoff Kitney, and the global health crisis may give Beijing a big advantage in the battle for economic supremacy….
February 11, 2019
The US-China trade war has already seen various skirmishes, around intellectual property, steel and soya. One, however, is shaping up to be a battleground that could define a new world order –…
April 10, 2018
The economic, commercial and geo-political status of nations is derived from their scientific and technological prowess. A new report charts how this balance of power has altered since the turn of the…
February 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence is no longer the sole preserve of data scientists and science fiction writers, with its technological applications now pervading daily life, says James Fitzgerald. The “Fourth Industrial Revolution”…