The tide is running in the direction of the Albanese government being pushed into changing its timid stance on negative ...

Unhappily for us all, the Gorbachevs and the Mandelas and the Keatings and the Dengs (possibly even the Xis) and the Obamas ...

An historical association with Israel, I admit to being greatly puzzled by the double standard that is evident in the ...

Prabowo and his apparently ideology-free vice-presidential running mate Gibran Rakabuming Raka will run the world's ...

The UNs' human rights chief on Tuesday called for an international investigation into mass graves discovered at two Gaza ...

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True respect demands that we question the first ‘Anzac Day’. Why were Australian soldiers at Anzac Cove in the first place?

To focus the independent nation's interests, we need a more practical security history based on a rational calculation of ...

One could travel Australia and remain completely ignorant of the Frontier Wars, the Australian Wars. That should not be.

In the days immediately preceding Anzac Day 2024, there seems to be less media exhortation to observance than has been usual ...

In the Lehrmann cases, little attention seems to have been given as to how he got into Minister Linda Reynolds office in the ...

In a sense, Iran has achieved the neutralisation of American forces in the Persian gulf that it long sought, says Chas ...