Peter Hartcher
Author / Journalist

​The PM should have asked all the states to cooperate in a joint federal-state royal commission. It seems he was more interested in political management.

​The governments of the Pacific island nations are asking for visa-free travel to Australia and New Zealand. Here’s why it makes sense.

It’s about indigeneity. What’s the difference? Race is about skin colour. Indigeneity is about first peoples. Australia is home to various races but has only one first people.

While other G20 world leaders met in Indonesia, the Chinese president was busy preparing his country for “the danger of war”.

The Spirit of Australia, by government decree, was profit maximisation. Joyce was acting within that spirit.

​When China’s neighbours didn’t embrace its notorious “made-in-China map”, Xi Jinping cancelled several upcoming summit appearances.