Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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Fifty years on, Australia and China can renew their diplomatic vows
The first bilateral ministerial meeting in two years offers signs of a thaw in Sino-Australian relations just as a significant diplomatic anniversary looms.
- by Peter Hartcher
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The days of political pork-barrelling are numbered
The advent of an integrity commission should send a chill through any party tempted to shower the electorates it holds with taxpayers’ money.
- by Peter Hartcher
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China offers Australia friendship but expects the full kowtow
Beijing’s overtures to Canberra are insincere. The Albanese government is hardly about to capitulate to its pressure.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Dutton will defy the teal tide and await the next wave to the right
The opposition leader believes the Coalition’s election drubbing is not a reason for politicians to rush to the left. He says the times and the economy will turn again in their favour.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Oceans of influence key to China’s long Pacific game
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s energetic arrival into the diplomatic “fight” between China and Australia regarding Pacific islands nations appears to be bearing fruit, but China is playing a long game.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Australia didn’t turn left. It wised up
The Australian people overall did not shift to the left. Any political party that assumes so will be acting on a false signal.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Climate shift: Albanese agenda warms bilateral relationship
Australia’s change of government will find accord on a facet of US relations, but the major preoccupation in Asia remains the same: China.
- by Peter Hartcher
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The quiet Australians spoke and they said ‘enough’
The prime minister was a bulldozer, all right. He bulldozed his party into electoral oblivion.
- by Peter Hartcher
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The deadweight of complacency keeps the Lucky Country down
Neither the Coalition nor Labor has a serious plan to reinvigorate the economy or to generate more income above and beyond the current trajectory of a flatulent status quo.
- by Peter Hartcher
From the Archives, 1992: Powerbroker goes for the good of the party
30 years ago, Senator Graham Richardson - implicated in the Marshall Islands affair but proclaiming his innocence - resigned his Keating Government portfolio.
- by Peter Hartcher and Tom Burton
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Albanese to take South-East Asia package to Quad meeting if Labor elected
Labor leader Anthony Albanese will bring a package of South-East Asia policies to a meeting of the Quad grouping next week if he is elected prime minister.
- by Anthony Galloway and Peter Hartcher