James Curran

Sydney

Contributor at Australian Financial Review

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Are Anthony Albanese and Labor ready for Donald Trump’s new world?

1 week ago | afr.com | James Curran

May 4, 2025 – 1.45pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. The extraordinary triumph of Anthony Albanese and Labor in Saturday’s election should allow a stronger and more confident government to bring new ideas to trade, foreign and defence policy. Loading... James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
Trump’s shadow is all over this election

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

The president is bringing out the differences between political cultures and traditions in Australia and the US, especially in attitudes towards what government can and should do. Donald Trump is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people. Mad king, tariff tyrant, spoiler of world orders, trasher of international rules. And still a hero to some. During Trump’s first term, the Turnbull Government looked to give him an education in alliances.
How Donald Trump is influencing the upcoming poll, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s campaigns

3 weeks ago | afr.com | James Curran

Apr 21, 2025 – 10.48am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. Donald Trump is coming to mean many things for this nation’s political leaders and for the Australian people. Mad king, tariff tyrant, spoiler of world orders, trasher of international rules. And still a hero to some. Loading...
Trump’s tariffs deliver a harsh truth for Australia

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

Too little thought has been given to the future of the Australian economy against the backdrop of a protectionist America. Donald Trump’s grasp of history in Washington last week revealed a harsh truth for Australia. Namely, that too little thought has been given to the nation’s economic future against the backdrop of a protectionist America . Anthony Albanese phoned Keir Starmer first to discuss the US tariffs, when surely he should have contacted South-East Asian leaders.
Donald Trump’s tariffs deliver a harsh economic truth for Australia

1 month ago | afr.com | James Curran

Apr 6, 2025 – 3.19pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Donald Trump’s grasp for history in Washington last week revealed a harsh truth for Australia. Namely, that too little thought has been given to the nation’s economic future against the backdrop of a protectionist America. Loading... James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
What ‘liberation day’ means for America, Australia, China and Asia.

1 month ago | afr.com | James Curran

Donald Trump chose the White House Rose Garden, once an iconic setting for displays of American power, to unleash a ferocious attack on the international economic system and on American influence and prestige. The announcement played first and foremost into Trump’s vanity and hunger for attention, but it will go down as the day the global trading regime we have known for the best part of 80 years ended. Loading...
James Curran's closing remarks to the Sovereignty and Security Conference on 31 March

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

The sense of urgency and rapid change that has pervaded the discussion today [31 March] has not obscured the fact that, as we know, this issue of the abrupt change in the relationship with the United States has been coming since at least Trump’s first term. And really from the disaster of Iraq and the 2008 global financial crisis. Yet, for many in Australia, the tendency is to deny it and hold fast to the ANZUS security blanket.
Australia gets caught up in Washingtons China blame game

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

The US is ignoring the rain of shrapnel that falls onto allies including Australia from its trade clashes with China. The spectre of Donald Trump stalks Joe Bidens White House and other corridors of power in Washington. A recent Iowa poll showed that Trump would win the state comfortably if a poll were held now, despite a disapproval rating of 99 per cent among Democrats. Trumps popularity there is higher now than when he was president.
Quad in trouble in new cold war.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

_For those in Australia clinging to the Indo-Pacific as the titular proof of a new regional zeitgeist, where India is concerned, they are relying on a strategic partner that simply does not exist. _Scott Morrisons Americanisation of Australian foreign policy is troubling considering the high economic costs of imposing sanctions on China should it give aid to Russia over Ukraine. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves into a bloodier phase, attempts to divine its meaning for the future intensify.
'New cold war' in the South Pacific exposed

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | James Curran

Having preened on the global stage for standing up to Beijing, the Morrison government has now been shown to have little influence in the region most crucial to our security. Amid the tumult arising from the Solomon Islands-China security agreement, two clear points emerge. The first is the inherent right of any country to make sovereign decisions in its own interest.

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