The obituaries for former Treasury secretary and National Party senator John Stone — who died last week at the age of ninety-six — have so far focused on his thirty-year career as a public servant, ...

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An auspiciously timed amendment to departmental responsibilities highlights a long delay in federal electronic-surveillance reforms ...

The question of how to exercise global governance without the United States now turns to the G20. Since it was founded in 1999, the group of the world’s largest economies (now twenty-one of them, ...

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A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

Australia’s government and opposition stand in different places on the United States’ attack on Iran. The Albanese government’s first response was to call for “de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy.” ...

A journalist since 1971, Graeme Dobell has been writing about international affairs for Inside Story since 2011.