Carbon Tax: Still a Bad Idea
An anti-carbon tax amendment will likely be considered as the Senate attempts to pass its first budget in four years. While it has been made… Read More
Carbon Tax: Australia’s Experience Is a Chance for the U.S. to Get It Right
“This is the most effective and efficient way to drive innovation to find better, less-polluting ways of producing power, goods and services,” Australian Treasurer Wayne… Read More
India Helps U.S. Join Asian Maritime Grouping
Last week, India assisted the U.S. in securing dialogue-partner status in the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC), a 20-member grouping of littoral… Read More
Chart of the Week: How Countries Compare on Economic Freedom
Heritage and the Wall Street Journal released the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom on Thursday, ranking 179 countries on 10 benchmarks that gauge their economic… Read More
Moving Forward with the U.S.-India–Australia Trilateral Dialogue
Last week, The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center hosted a very timely discussion on the prospects for U.S.–Australia–India Trilateral Cooperation featuring Graham Fletcher, the deputy… Read More
As Long as We’re Talking About ‘Cold War Mentality’
In recent weeks, representatives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have complained of America’s “Cold War mentality.” The rhetoric is in reaction to President… Read More
Australia’s Reversal of Uranium Ban to India Could Spur Trilateral Engagement
In a November 15 op-ed in The Age, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she would push her Labor Party to overturn its ban… Read More
Morning Bell: The Debate Over China
Want to hear something disturbing? China has increased its defense budget by double digits every year for the last 20 years. Just as China seems… Read More
New U.S.–Australia Military Arrangement Must Be Backed by Real Commitment
On November 16, President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced their intention to increase U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force training in… Read More
Trade Policies from Down Under: A Good Example for the United States
With the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks at a standstill, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is taking action by giving poor nations… Read More
Celebrating the U.S.–Australia Alliance’s 60th Birthday
Sixty years ago today, in San Francisco, the foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand met with Dean Acheson, President Harry Truman’s Secretary of State,… Read More
Not Dead Yet: Predictions of Religion’s Extinction Miss the Mark
In 1966, God was pronounced dead. More recently, it was determined that God is back. But now a team of researchers has put him on… Read More
The U.S. Should Take a Clue from Australia’s Continuing Power Shift Debate
A new paper entitled Australia’s Strategic Edge in 2030 from Ross Babbage, founder of the Kokoda Foundation, an Australian think tank, has furthered the debate… Read More
Australian Courage in Afghanistan
An Australian member of the Special Air Service Regiment, Corporal Ben, has received the Victoria Cross For Australia, the nation’s highest military honor. In October… Read More
Pull it Together, Mr. President
So America’s first “Asia-Pacific President” who brought America “back” to Asia after eight years of supposed neglect under the Bush Administration has canceled his Indonesia-Australia-Guam trip… Read More
With Obamacare Passed, Will Obama Turn His Focus to Foreign Policy?
Now that that the massive healthcare bill has been signed into law, President Obama can no longer make excuses for neglecting foreign affairs. Just last… Read More
Climate Emails Have Rippling Effects
For those who thought the exposed emails from Britain’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit would come and go without much play, think again…. Read More
The Obama Administration: A Year of Living Dangerously
This week marks the one year anniversary of the president’s election to commander chief, but it seems more like an occasion for concern than for slapping… Read More
Accepting and Embracing Nuclear Power
Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has a problem. His Labor Party government wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent from 2000 levels by 2050,… Read More
The Obama Administration Supports the U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty
The administration recently released its Treaty Priority List, designating the treaties for which it supports – and those for which it does not support –… Read More
Heartland Update: Causes of Global Warming Alarmism
Bob Carter is the first speaker during the last event of the conference. Professor Carter is a geologist at James Cook University and is widely… Read More
The Unintended Consequences of Global Warming Hysteria
In what has been an unusually and welcoming warm week in the District and with that comes the “What’s so bad about global warming?” or… Read More
If the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan Were a Country…
… which country would it be? Just so we can all wrap our heads around how big President Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Debt Plan is, this graphic… Read More
