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1 week ago | 
afr.com | James Curran
James CurranInternational affairs expertJun 1, 2025 – 12.53pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In a little under a fortnight, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will arrive in Canada for the G7. He is expected to meet US President Donald Trump there. How he handles the American leader on trade and national security is the first serious test of Australian diplomacy under Trump.
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2 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | James Curran
Deposed Labor cabinet minister Ed Husic threw down the gauntlet to the Albanese Government last week when he challenged it to “burn through the timidity that has shackled us in the first term”.
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | James Curran
Deposed Labor cabinet minister Ed Husic threw down the gauntlet to the Albanese government last week when he challenged it to “burn through the timidity that has shackled us in the first term”.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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...
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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...
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2 months 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.
