Candid Canberra

Taking in Tarin Kowt

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

We spent much of today travelling the new Tarin Kowt to Chora road, through the highly dodgy Baluchi Valley in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, talking to local village and tribal elders about the war, development and their hopes for the future.

Another week, another summit

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

Another week, another summit. This time, it's Lisbon. Subject, Afghanistan.

PM keeps one eye on home front

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

It's been what you might call a two-track start to Julia Gillard's G20 odyssey in South Korea.

Gillard battles novelty value

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

She's a bit of a curiousity in Brussels. As some 40 or so leaders gather for the biennial Asia-Europe summit, many from the European end are keen to know just who is this woman who ousted that bloke who used to be Australia's Prime Minister?

Troops, football and world politics

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

When she arrived in Brussels, Julia Gillard looked exhausted.

Election 2010 begins to get grubby

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

There's the campaign you read, hear and see upfront and then there's the one going on underneath. Sometimes that's the more intriguing and revealing and (usually) grubbier version. And in week two, here it comes.

The policy that is haunting Abbott

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +1100

Tony Abbott has a zombie problem. An undead policy from 2007 is following him wherever he goes.