Media
Recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald
January 01, 2020
Beijing's authoritarian impulse is limited only by its reach.
November 15, 2019
All of Australia's political parties are failing voters in the face of the fire emergency. It is a continuation of Australia's crisis of over-politicisation.
November 04, 2019
The nation was fated to be overtaken economically, overlooked culturally, snubbed politically, forever alone.
November 01, 2019
Labor is reframing the climate debate to Australia's potential as a clean energy powerhouse. So is the nation's pre-eminent climate economist.
October 28, 2019
The President's terrorist trophy has done nothing to alter the big lesson learnt in the Middle East of late.
October 25, 2019
The nation faces big challenges: drought, climate change, chronically weak productivity. But none is so important that it can't be met with a feeble response.
Video
Sometimes Paranoia's Just Having All the Facts: Interview with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, August 20, 2015
Tony Abbott survived the February 2015 motion to spill the leadership: Peter Hartcher reveals what Abbott told the party room immediately afterwards.
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.