Traditionally Australia's political allegiances have been with the United States. More recently our economic fortunes have been tied to China, which is asserting itself as a global power and in the process perhaps challenging American hegemony. So do we have to choose where our primary allegiance lies? Guests Hugh WhiteProfessor of Strategic Studies at the...

With one in ten living in poverty and 70 per cent of poor children in Australia living in families with unemployed parents, whose job is it to get stories of inequality and poverty into the mainstream media? The journalists or the welfare sector... or both? And why is there such a large disconnect between the...

Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored. Terrorists, she says, spend their days searching for money because terrorism is a very expensive business. The decisions and...

Is capitalism moral, immoral, or just plain amoral? Some societies have tried to do away with it. But more often than not it's all ended badly. Capitalism works. Its capacity to adapt and grow has enabled millions to live with material comfort hitherto only dreamt of. According to a recent poll, 75 per cent of...