Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Opinion
India
An economic miracle is shifting the global balance of power
India’s physical infrastructure boom is impressive enough, but its digital infrastructure expansion has been stunning in empowering its marginalised millions.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Home Truths
Scandal has stuck to Morrison, but offshore truths could hit home for Dutton
Recriminations over the conduct of the former Coalition government have mostly centred on Scott Morrison to date. The next inquiry will put Peter Dutton under scrutiny.
- by Peter Hartcher
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AI
Christopher Nolan said Oppenheimer was a cautionary tale for AI. Was he right?
The logic of mutually assured destruction – as in the case of nuclear weapons – will also be essential to protect us from the self-inflicted dangers of artificial intelligence.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Globalisation
How to save globalisation from itself? Chalmers has some ideas
Australia has benefited enormously from globalisation. But Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the old models don’t apply as well as they did.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Foreign relations
Albanese, unlike Keating, believes NATO ties serve Australia’s interests
The global and regional are inseparable, the prime minister argues, and Australian governments need to work at both levels simultaneously.
- by Peter Hartcher
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RBA
The political execution of a fearless public servant, Phil Lowe
The government praises Reserve Bank governor Phil Lowe even as it buries him. It claims credit for his policy even as it fires its architect.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Foreign relations
Fury and falsehood: Keating’s not entitled to his own version of history
Paul Keating’s frantic attacks on the US and Australia, and now on Europe in general and NATO in particular, sound like Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Robo-debt royal commission
Rotten robo-debt ruse bestows damning epitaph on Morrison government
“Venality, incompetence and cowardice”: The royal commission has delivered a scathing assessment of a cruel, illegal scheme and those who ran it.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Foreign relations
Accelerated EV drive may give Australia-Indonesia future some grunt
Australia has lithium. Indonesia has nickel. EV batteries need both. Could this be the evolution of a beautiful friendship?
- by Peter Hartcher
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Corruption
To halt the democratic rot, stop the political rorts
The normalisation of corrupt conduct - including pork-barrelling - is a cancer on our democracy. But there’s cause for optimism that the rorters are now on notice.
- by Peter Hartcher
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Russia-Ukraine war
‘Damaged goods’: Why Putin is now Beijing’s problem brother
The weekend’s abortive coup, by weakening Putin further, has made the Russian leader even more dependent on his big brother in Beijing.
- by Peter Hartcher