Letter from Timor Leste
In my nearly twelve years as foreign minister there were few issues I dealt with which were more contentious than East Timor.
The National Interest?
To do something – anything – in the national interest sounds like a very good idea.
Abbott’s threat to productivity
From an economic perspective, there has been a very disconcerting start to Tony Abbott’s Prime Ministership.
An All Too Human Enemy
From Melbourne to Oxford, Moscow to Chicago, the career of leading Soviet and Modern Russian historian Sheila Fitzpatrick comes to vivid life through the portraits of those she met and…