Our esteemed editor invited me to lunch a while ago. After three hours I had to leave because Qantas doesn’t even hold planes ...

Australia has a habit of being caught with its pants down when it comes to defence spending. In 1938, Australia’s defence spend was a miserable 1.6 per cent of GDP. In the last ten ...

In Australia, we do a damn poor job of looking after our veterans. This Anzac Day, can we just admit it? Take this nightmare ...

Theodore Roosevelt was a believer in speaking softly but carrying a big stick. But where does that leave Donald Trump, who ...

The unfolding tale of incendiary devices planted in DHL packages across Europe not only highlights the dangers of Moscow’s ...

Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea in West Africa has been named among the potential successors to Pope Francis and the ...

India is bracing for a potential military confrontation with Pakistan after a deadly terrorist attack on tourists in ...

Today is Anzac Day, arguably the most solemnly sacred day in the Australian calendar. At dawn on this day in 1915, as part of ...

It’s not just the SNP who can’t sort out their ferries. A new row has broken out much further south over the failure to ...

Well, well, well. While Rachel Reeves enjoys a week in Washington DC at the International Monetary Fund spring talks, back in ...

Machinery of government is not the sexiest of subjects – but it is a useful way of signalling a politician’s priorities.

It’s official: subjecting oil and gas companies to a 78 pence tax rate (which is corporation tax plus the government’s ...