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The Australian

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Remembering Race Mathews

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Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Being a good international citizen in a Trumpian world

02.05.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Best of 2024: AUKUS: The worst defence and foreign policy decision our country has made

Defence Minister Marles’s love for the the US is so dewy-eyed as to defy parody. Foreign Minister Wong is far more beady-eyed, and instinctively...

29.12.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Celebrating Race Mathews

In this era of totally leader-focused election campaigning, and presidential prime ministers, it is not surprising that political biographers tend...

24.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Sheridan wrong on Wong

Greg Sheridan is doubtless now too long in the tooth to change his journalistic ways. But it really is time that he recognised the force of that...

02.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Defending nation’s sovereignty is not the act of an ‘appeaser’

Could the Alexander Downer who accuses me and Paul Keating of appeasement possibly be the same Alexander Downer who recently wrote in The...

24.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

No, defending our sovereignty is not ‘appeasement’ — a response to Alexander Downer

24.09.2024 2

The Australian

Gareth Evans

Independence too big a price for AUKUS fantasy

Paul Keating, Bob Carr and I seem to have jangled a few security establishment nerves with our critique of the AUKUS submarine deal as having...

17.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

Why AUKUS is not in Australia’s interests – a response by Labor’s elder statesmen

17.09.2024 10

The Australian

Gareth Evans

Remembering Pete Steedman

Legendary student agitator, Oz-era editor, Hawke-era Parliamentarian, union official, music industry executive and all-purpose provocateur, Pete...

10.09.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans

AUKUS: The worst defence and foreign policy decision our country has made

Defence Minister Marles’s love for the the US is so dewy-eyed as to defy parody. Foreign Minister Wong is far more beady-eyed, and instinctively...

16.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Gareth Evans