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SUNDAY, 3 APRIL 2011: Crossing the Hay Plain at 30,000 feet.Underway at last! I didn't sleep well last night....

By Peter Mares

IN the past three years there have been urgent calls – by organisations ranging from the United Nations to...

IT'S SEPTEMBER 2010, one of those gloriously bright, almost clichéd Perth afternoons. My husband and I haven't yet separated,...

By Maria Papas

BEN BUCKLER IS one of those secret places you can find in any large city, a space within a...

By John Birmingham

LAST YEAR, I walked through the ruins of a Crusader church high on a hill in Palestine. A fire...

By Margaret Coffey

IN SEPTEMBER 2000, the cadaver of Australia's great foreign policy tragedy of the past quarter century was laid out...

By Graeme Dobell

IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 world, many middle-ranking countries are starting to ask the question: 'If the United States can...

By Charles Firth

BACK IN 1988, I was working on the Soviet Union in Australia's national intelligence-analysis organisation, the Office of National...

By Allan Gyngell

WITH THE FALL of Baghdad, America's dutiful Anglophone allies – the British and Australians – are due for their...

'WATCH OUT – ALI Baba!' the taxi driver says as we pass the burnt-out Information Ministry in Baghdad. 'Ali...

By Irris Makler

IT WAS ASKING a lot of a man that he pursue a military career in Australia between 1918 and...

By Michael McKernan

Perpetual Peace ... philosophers who dream this sweet dream ...– Immanuel Kant Soon war will simply be one chemist approaching...

By Frank Moorhouse