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Obama shares stories about his presidency and reveals his optimistic outlook for the future

News

Barack Obama talked geopolitics, with special focus on China and the Russia-Ukraine war, plus the Murdoch news empire. Hugo Mathers reports.

Winter cometh: Ukrainian snow school for 5 RAR

By Julian Bajkowski

Federal

Snow-fighting has become a new and improved public service skill as Australians dig into the Eastern Front.

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Turns out COVID-19 didn’t reshape geopolitics

By Daniel W. Drezner

Economy & Industry

COVID-19’s legacy matters less in shifting the material distribution of power than in shifting how political leaders think about economics.

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Why superpower crises are a good thing

By Hal Brands

Defence

A new era of tensions will focus minds and break logjams, as Cold War history shows.

Charities welcome government’s humanitarian aid for Ukrainian children

By Tom Ravlic

Editors' Picks

Australia has given $30 million in humanitarian aid targeted specifically at helping protect Ukrainian children.

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NSW government sets good example of financial ethics re Russian shares

By Stephen Bartos

Federal

The New South Wales government has announced it will sell its $75 million worth of shares in Russian companies. Now for the Future Fund…

Putin’s ministry of truth: How the Kremlin has struggled to control what Russians think

By Robert Horvath

Editors' Picks

Under conditions of increasing domestic repression, opinion polls are unreliable. On topics that are sensitive for the Kremlin, they are a guide to the level of popular fear, not to popular attitudes.

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