People & associates
Tom Switzer
No Love Lost Between Labor and Rudd
In yesterday's ballot for the Labor Party's 102-strong legislative caucus, freshly resigned Minister of Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd lost...
Not Only Nixon Could Go to China
President Richard Nixon's visit to China 40 years ago this week is rightly remembered as a historic breakthrough. Decades later, however, few...
An Australian bloodbath
It's an intricate two-step, but one false move now spells death. As Kevin Rudd surprises everyone, including his own supporters, with his adroit...
Avowed anti-communist opened China to the world
"Congratulations on a magnificent breakthrough!" Donald Rumsfeld wrote to Richard Nixon after his announcement that he would visit the People's...
Yet another flipping flop
Credibility is draining away from Julia Gillard as if from an open wound. The effect of a year of mounting mistrust in the nation over the carbon...
GOP's first-rate foreign policy chaos
Distinguished US commentator Walter Lippmann once wrote what is arguably the single most important sentence written on foreign policy: "Without the...
Gingrich presses the right buttons
Winston Churchill once said of politics that it's "almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in...
A lifetime of politics, shared with a daughter
In February 1969, Robert Menzies enjoyed a White House dinner with Richard Nixon and a few distinguished guests, including national security...
South Carolina primary: can a divided Republican house unite around Romney?
By rights, Mitt Romney should be on the ropes. In the years leading up to the Republican presidential primaries, he supported small-l liberal...
Paul is a prophet deserving honour in warning on America's limits
He rails against the "American empire" that "brought the September 11 attacks on us". He condemns Obama for killing Osama. He is indifferent to...