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Australia would be wise not to pound ‘war drums’ over Taiwan with so much at stake

      Taiwan’s military has been on alert amid large numbers of Chinese war plane incursions in its air space. Chiang Ying-ying/AP Australians woke up to...

I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus

Header picture; Dake Kang/AP Doctor Dominic Dwyer: pic courtesy ABC As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China....

‘Trumpism’ in Australia has been overstated – our problems are mostly our own

 Image: Wes Mountain/The Conversation The Trump era might not yet be over. But the Trump presidency – or at least one Trump presidency – certainly...

Australia can repair its relationship with China, here are 3 ways to start

Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP China has certainly got Australia’s attention with a highly inflammatory tweet from a government spokesperson. It has provoked the desired reaction — a storm of...

How midnight digs at a holy Tibetan cave opened a window to prehistoric humans living on the roof of the world

Picture: Han Yuanyuan A mountainside cave now used as a Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary was home to prehistoric humans known as Denisovans for tens of millennia. Our painstaking...

‘America First’ is no more, but can president-elect Biden fix the US reputation abroad?

Jacquelyn Martin/AP Throughout the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, Joe Biden spent significant time reassuring American allies around the world that Trump’s America is...

Finding Covid Normal

A musician friend in Aotearoa/New Zealand was telling me about the live gigs he has been playing lately, and those he has booked, and...

China just stunned the world with its step-up on climate action – and the implications for Australia may be huge

Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP China’s President Xi Jinping surprised the global community recently by committing his country to net-zero emissions by 2060. Prior to this announcement,...

‘Backwards’ federal budget: Morrison government never fails to disappoint on climate action

Image: Shuttlestock When it comes to action on climate change, Tuesday’s federal budget delivered by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was a real – though not unexpected –...

Australians pessimistic about economic outlook and even more suspicious of China: 2020 Lowy poll

Unsplash/Joost M, Author provided The Lowy Institute’s 2020 “Understanding Australian Attitudes to the World” poll has found “unprecedented shifts” in Australian public opinion, with more...
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