Media
Recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald
June 05, 2020
Australians should not be smug watching America's pandemonium. We have signs of the same dysfunction.
June 01, 2020
America's biggest problems never get solved – they just accumulate.
May 29, 2020
The government needed to bring unions and bosses together - fast. They chose a Labor and union man as their go-between - and it worked.
May 25, 2020
At first glance, the Chinese President's latest threats to Hong Kong and Taiwan don't make much sense.
May 22, 2020
State governments are locked in ugly arguments about who is right to be open and closed. Unprecedented? Absolutely not.
May 18, 2020
Australia's greatest ally is proving unreliable and not even especially capable.
Video
Peter Hartcher discussess the rise of China with former foreign minister Julie Bishop, moderated by Tom Switzer: Centre for Independent Studies, November 28, 2019
Peter Hartcher discusses China's attempts to gain influence in Australia: Interview with Leigh Sales, 7.30, ABC, November 25, 2019
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts: Interview with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, August 20, 2015
Aussie quality of life second in the world
Peter Hartcher discusses the results of the UN Human Development Index, which has ranked Australians' quality of life as the second best in the world.
Essays
November 30, 2011
Left behind: why the right keeps winning
Financial capitalism suffered a dreadful collapse in 2008 and the economies of the United States and Europe were devastated. Powerful voices called for the rich to pay more taxes to help rebuild. The odd thing was that the most resonant voices were those of the rich themselves. In the US it was the voice of the multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett; in Australia it was the voice of the wealthy investment banker Mark Carnegie.
October 31, 2011
The death of money
How America's cheap money addiction is inflating the next bubble and undermining faith in government.
May 09, 2006
Sun, surf and the birth of a new economic model
Unheralded and almost unnoticed, the world has seen the emergence of a new economic model.