Peter Hartcher

In an Australian exclusive, Peter Hartcher sits down with the freedom-fighting wife of anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny who died last year while in jail.

The Albanese government has considered itself a friend of Israel. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s callous mistreatment of Palestinians has gone too far.

Due to a negative focus and social media, audiences are divided into warring camps. But there’s a solution.

From the Finnish president’s lakeside summer residence, Alexander Stubb tells Peter Hartcher what Australia can learn from Finland’s experience.

Never has a US president delegated the negotiation over a critical national interest to an American enemy. Yet we seem to be on the brink of exactly that.

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks, is this the beginning of a new level of interference?

Nationals leader David Littleproud said the walkout was over the party’s commitment to improving the lives of people in the regions. But the Nationals will be powerless to improve anyone’s lives without the Liberals. 

The Liberal Party has been reduced to a right-wing populist party. Peter Dutton gave a gracious concession speech. But his Coalition did not suffer an honourable failure.

It’s taken too long for parties to take the housing shortage seriously. Sunday’s campaign launches offer some hope that might be about to change.

The consequences of this war are unpredictable, but we know one thing already: trade is conducted for mutual benefit – it’s win-win. Its cancellation is lose-lose.