Posted on May 20, 2011
Senator Trood wrote a blog on the Lowy Institute Interpreter. As usual, Michael Wesley writes with flair and considerable insight on the failings of ... Read more...
Posted on April 05, 2011
Julia Gillard is not the first Australian Prime Minister to come to office with no experience of or interest in international relations. Unlike most, ... Read more...
Posted on March 28, 2011
The following was published at: http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/christmas-island-now-a-symbol-of-policy-failure/ The chaotic events on Christmas ... Read more...
Posted on March 04, 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax announcement represents one of the most brazen and fundamental pieces of political dishonesty in recent memo... Read more...
Posted on December 20, 2010
Oliver Stone must be licking his lips. Just when you thought it was impossible, the WikiLeaks story has thrown out another fiendish plot twist. Des... Read more...
Posted on November 29, 2010
October 2007 two unarmed Iraqi women were shot and killed by private military contractors working for Unity Resources Group (URG), the same firm that ... Read more...
Posted on March 02, 2010
BUNDABERG STATE HIGH - On Tuesday 2nd of March four intrepid students and one teacher braved the rising waters and ventured to Urangan... Read more...
Posted on February 16, 2010
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott opened the LNP campaign office for the newly established Federal Seat of Wright on 12 February 2010. Hajna... Read more...
Posted on August 25, 2009
The highest responsibility of government is protecting its citizens from danger and from threat. That is the responsibility of government. In the area... Read more...
Since the Prime Minister reshuffled the ranks of the senior public servants responsible for defence and foreign policy late last week, most of the com... Read more...
Posted on July 10, 2009
While President Obama has the world’s nuclear future on his mind on the road to L’Aquila, our own Prime Minister Rudd has chosen football and sainthoo... Read more...
Posted on July 02, 2009
Since his election to office, Senator Russel Trood has been a keen supporter of the internship program at Parliament House. The program enable... Read more...
Posted on April 14, 2009
Much like the Australian economy and the very dubious wisdom of the $42 billion stimulus package, the Rudd Government's very ambitious foreign policy ... Read more...
The recent report by the Lowy Institute’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Australia’s Diplomatic Deficit Reinvesting in our instruments of international policy, ... Read more...
Posted on March 18, 2009
As the Governor-General embarks on her journey through Africa this week, numerous questions surround the reasons for the trip and the benefits it migh... Read more...