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Despite rising geopolitical tensions the evidence of a correlation between political talk and economic connections between trading nations is often overdone.

Australia’s new prime minister has been sworn into office ahead of a Tokyo summit with President Joe Biden

The Liberal Party is taking stock in the wake of an election defeat but is turning its focus to a replacement for Scott Morrison as leader.

NSW Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean says the Scott Morrison government paid the ultimate price for abandoning moderate voters and the party needs to "get its act together" and stop shifting to the right.

Elections are a test – the ultimate test, really – of those who serve as parliamentarians and those who aspire to serve. Scott Morrison asserted quite absurdly early in the 2022 campaign that the election was not a popularity contest. Clearly, the opposite is true. An election involving every eligible…

It is pretty human to crave the approval of peers and to hope for more of the same, even if unconsciously.

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

Can the Liberal Party rediscover its sense of purpose without being distracted by the issues and personalities that Australians now seem to have rejected at the ballot box?