IT IS NOW understood and accepted that Asia is in the midst of dynamic economic, political and military power shifts that are reshaping the regional and global strategic order. The rise of China as a potential competitor – at least – with the United States is the most obvious development concentrating the minds of policy...

AUSTRALIA’s longest serving immigration detainee is a fifty-six-year-old Chinese woman in frail and failing health who is living alone and in fear in a suburban Sydney flat. The woman – we will call her Mrs Bao – was held in detention at Villawood immigration detention centre from January 2001 until she was released into community...

This could be the end of the Liberal Party as we know it, argues Geoffrey Barker in Inside Story. With the crisis that has unhinged the Liberal Party and doomed Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership we may be witnessing the end of the Menzies era in Australian politics. It now seems that Australia’s non-Labor political forces are...

The reporting of Kevin Rudd’s climate speech demonstrated the failings of the news media, writes Geoffrey Barker in Inside Story

Over the past week Canberra has fiddled while the world burns, writes Geoffrey Barker on our partner website, INSIDE STORY.