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Allan Behm

Allan Behm

Brisbane Times

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Trump’s grift and US's drift – new game, new rules

Every US presidency runs an implicit profit and loss account. The Trump presidency is no different. But the profit and loss account is: Donald...

21.07.2026 30

The New Daily

Allan Behm

Wong and Marles were left waiting in the wings in London – it’s further proof Aukus was never anything more than a political stunt

The resignation of the UK defence minister John Healey, along with the armed forces minister Al Carns, has driven another nail into the coffin of Keir...

16.06.2026 30

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Trump is impotently railing against the US’s allies. Albanese is right to avoid the president’s global catastrophe

We have all come to expect demeaning and graceless behaviour from Donald Trump. Once again, our expectations have not been disappointed. In another...

30.03.2026 30

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both

For Anthony Albanese – as well as Mark Carney and Keir Starmer – to go along with Trump and Netanyahu’s cynical ploy negates any sense of moral...

04.03.2026 100

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both

The ease and speed with which Australia, along with Britain and Canada, fell in behind Donald Trump’s attack on Iran was startling. For a country...

03.03.2026 30

The Guardian

Allan Behm

NATO is failing – and ANZUS is next

29.01.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

Best of 2025 - In memoriam: The slow death of the Quad

14.01.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now

08.01.2026 50

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Best of 2025 - Chasing a chimera: The political dream of AUKUS that consumes reality

04.01.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

In memoriam: the slow death of the Quad

04.11.2025 20

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

Australia’s failure of diplomacy in PNG shows we can’t – and won’t – understand our Pacific neighbours

17.09.2025 30

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Chasing a chimera: The political dream of AUKUS that consumes reality

28.08.2025 30

Pearls and Irritations

Allan Behm

Chasing a chimera: the political dream of AUKUS that consumes reality

27.08.2025 30

Canberra Times

Allan Behm

As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration

23.06.2025 20

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus is on its last legs. When will Labor call the undertaker?

12.06.2025 20

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Australia must resist US bullying to increase its military spending

03.06.2025 20

The Guardian

Allan Behm