Nick Bryant

Sydney

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Author of The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself and When America Stopped Being Great. Former BBC correspondent in Washington and New York.

Articles

Spooked by Trump, Aussies stayed close to home and chose ‘dinky-di’ Albo

4 days ago | smh.com.au | Nick Bryant

Journalist and author May 11, 2025 — 1.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia has voted for its politics to remain Australian, using its uniquely Australian model of democracy to re-elect an emphatically Australian prime minister. One way of interpreting the Labor landslide, the Liberal demolition and the Greens’ dismissal is as a rejection of Americanisation, and a collective act of Australianisation.
Liberal Tim Wilson roars back to life in Goldstein and compulsory voting, Cardinal style

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant

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Australia Votes: Election Day 2025

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant

Nick Bryant talks with voters and candidates in the marginal seat of Bennelong in Sydney and does a health check on the state of Australian democracy with the ANU's Dr Jill Sheppard and Iain Walker from NewDemocracy Foundation. Plus, Australia's theatre community is buzzing after the Broadway production of The Picture of Dorian Gray received 6 Tony Award nominations, and political commentator and author Peter Beinart on his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
The legacy of Pope Francis in Papua New Guinea

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant |Belinda Sommer |Linda lopresti |Oscar Coleman

Geraldine Doogue is in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, a man who was not afraid of confronting polarising issues. Although he never visited Australia, a nun in Papua New Guinea remembers his impact on her life. Plus, why a militant group launched a deadly attack in a region fought over by India and Pakistan.
Why politicans are wooing Australian Chinese and Indian voters

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant

The votes of Chinese and Indian Australians could have a big impact on the outcome of the coming federal election. How are the major parties attempting to win over these communities and is it having much of an effect? Guests: Pawan Luthra, publisher of The Indian Link media group, and Jason Fang, ABC Asia Pacific Newsroom.
Harvard v. Trump and Irish author Colum McCann

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant

The showdown between America's elite university and the Trump administration has begun... who will come out on top? Join Nick as well for an emotional interview with the widow of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and extended discussion with Irish author Colum McCann about our reliance on undersea cables. Plus, how might Indian and Chinese Australian voters shift the outcome of the federal election? We find out.
Donald Trump has made nationalism great again, just not in America

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nick Bryant

Journalist and author April 11, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. How quickly the vibe shift has shifted again. The populist rightward realignment, heralded by US President Donald Trump’s return to power, has been met internationally with an anti-Trump counterblast. Liberation Day, and its cratering effect on global markets. Trump Gaza.
Donald Trump has made nationalism great again, just not in America

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Nick Bryant

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Exit stage right: Trump blows up the West as we know it as America's allies flinch

1 month ago | rnz.co.nz | Nick Bryant

By Nick Bryant, ABCAnalysis - The promise in Donald Trump's inaugural address was bright shining: of a "golden age" with sunlight "pouring over the entire world". To many international observers, however, his first two months in office have felt more like the total eclipse of America: a darkening of the leader the world has known since it entered World War II.
Donald Trump's tariff war is another sign America is in danger of becoming a friendless state

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Nick Bryant

Some of America’s strongest allies are rethinking their relationship as Donald Trump’s isolationism threats to entirely remake the West. The promise in Donald Trump's inaugural address was bright shining: of a "golden age" with sunlight "pouring over the entire world". To many international observers, however, his first two months in office have felt more like the total eclipse of America: a darkening of the leader the world has known since it entered World War II.