August
‘You don’t embarrass the New Yorker in Trump’ says military adviser
Chris Miller, a former acting secretary of defence and Project 2025 contributor, says the AUKUS military alliance will be fine if Donald Trump wins the election, but Vladimir Putin could be in a jam.
May
‘We don’t know the truth’, says senior CIA officer
Beth Sanner was Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefer for two years. Few people know the boundaries between secrecy and democracy so well.
March
- Opinion
- Lunch with the AFR
‘Asian countries feel their time has come’: why the West must adapt
The best-selling historian Peter Frankopan says that the rise of Asia and rising global temperatures will force the West to rethink its future and its history.
November 2023
How to write an opinion article for the AFR
We publish opinion articles from external contributors every week. Here are some tips.
May 2023
Australia, Greece work on Gallipoli remembrance trail
Australia’s governor-general and Greece’s president turn the first soil on a $4.9 million open air museum at the former Anzac bases on Lemnos.
November 2019
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Government out of tune on climate
Letters on airports, the ATO, bushfires, climate change and the Berlin Wall.
March 2019
- Opinion
- Opinion
Brexit choice between economic or political hell
What can foreign industry leaders make of a government prepared to take its own economy to the edge of a cliff to appease zealots in its own party?
- Updated
Niall Ferguson: This is what happens if China wins the new cold war
History is marked by disruptive clashes and the battle between the US and China for high-tech domination could have some very nasty consequences, warns Hoover Institute and Harvard historian Niall Ferguson
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May 2018
Historian Robert Tombs says Brexit means Britain's elite is revolting
Eminent historian Robert Tombs thinks the British were right to vote for Brexit. It's only a trainwreck because the Establishment won't accept it, he tells Lunch with the AFR.
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December 2017
Senator Dean Smith: The godfather of same-sex marriage
Senator Dean Smith is the unlikely architect of our same-sex marriage laws. It should make us expect more from our politicians, he says over lunch with the AFR.
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September 2017
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on talking truth in age of Trump
Conservative pundit Bret Stephens explains, over lunch with the AFR, why our inability to disagree in the age of Trump is dangerous.
- Updated
December 2016
In a post-Brexit world, how does Britain plan to trade?
What can two countries bound together since the 1700s find to sell and invest with each other that they don't already? Plenty says a British trade minister
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August 2016
P.J. O'Rourke: an election scenario that is beyond satire
Legendary satirist P.J. O'Rourke blames the liberals who built an oversized and invasive US state for the low-rent dictator who could take it over.
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July 2016
South China Sea: China's vital link to the global economy
Since the Cultural Revolution China's insatiable demand for commodities has stretched it's sea-going approaches to their limits.
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May 2016
Niall Ferguson finds the future in the past
One of the world's most influential academics says that the best reason to study where history has been is to find out where it's going.
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Niall Ferguson says GFC stagnation is over and inflation will rise
Niall Ferguson says economic historians will look back at the first quarter of 2016 as the turning point; "the end of the hangover induced by the GFC".
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July 2015
- Opinion
- Interest rates
FT's Martin Wolf says global elite have not learned from GFC
Martin Wolf is staggered by how little we have wanted to learn from the catastrophe of the global financial crisis.
- Updated
December 2014
David Kilcullen: how to beat the Islamic extremists
This high flying, plain spoken Australian strategist now thinks the unthinkable about the threat to the West
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May 2014
AFR Lunch with Roger Scruton: tradition, truth and beauty
Philosopher Roger Scruton’s conservative convictions have caused him trouble, but he argues it’s all about morality and civility.
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December 2012
BP ‘in LNG contract linked to US gas price’
Oil giant BP will reportedly sell liquefied natural gas to Japan in a contract based for the first time on United States domestic gas prices, rather than the usual link to the much higher price of crude oil.
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