The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity. The ...

Meanwhile, the results of Covid commissions of governments around the world have become unbearably predictable. So far they have mostly said their government failed because they didn't act fast enough ...

The watershed moment in Syria with the ousting of Bashar al-Assad has triggered a complex and high-stakes scramble for influence in a region already rife with instability. As Syrian rebel forces have ...

America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind turbines and solar panels, to replace coal power plants, with the expectation that ...

The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world. Last time he came to power it was almost whimsical. He was a rank outsider with a very narrow path to victory, which he only just threaded.

At present Fiji is committing to a 73m Ocean of Peace vessel capable of regional disaster response, amphibious beach landings similar to the latest United States Marine Corps (USMC) vessel, to provide ...

New York Times o pinion columnist Thomas Friedman has offered President-elect Donald Trump some friendly advice on resolving ...

Led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), rebel forces have made sweeping gains in Aleppo, reversing nearly a decade of Assad's dominance in northern Syria. What is being described as a "total collapse" of ...

Why, then, did the ABC chairman, Kim Williams, do it? And by doing it, this involved attacking US-based podcaster Joe Rogan in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra, a foolish, bumbling ...

Trump clearly is not a believer in catastrophic climate change, otherwise his favourite phrase would not be "Drill, baby, drill". Like most Americans and his right-hand man, Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump can ...

Some examples are the solidarity shown in collective responses to national disasters such as bushfires and floods, the Matildas victory, campaigns for climate change, and struggles under the cost of ...

This clash of economic philosophy appears beyond media and political commentators; but a clash of economic philosophy lies at the centre of Trumps agenda. Compare Australia's situation with the US. In ...