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Op-Ed
1 January 2016

There is little of Gareth Evans’ sweeping analysis in the cabinet papers of 1990-91 of a rapidly changing world order or of his vision of good international citizenship.

The Article appeared in The Conversation

Op-Ed
25 October 2016

The Conversation  published this article with the above title. It was also published by the ABC online

Op-Ed
6 December 2016

Published in The Conversation

There has never been a time when the disconnect between political elites and the public interest was greater than it is today.

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The major parties seem uninterested or unable to respond to a drastically transformed political agenda. And so the disconnect grows wider by the day – and the contradictions ever sharper.

Op-Ed
3 February 2017

Published in John Menadue — Pearls and Irritations

It is hard not to conclude that our major parties have been the primary stumbling block.

Op-Ed
10 July 2017

On 7 July 2017, more than 120 countries adopted a treaty at a UN conference that prohibits the production, stockpiling, use or threatened use of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Australia was a notable absentee. So were the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons.

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