What explains Australia’s bizarre leadership churn? No prime minister has served a full term since 2007, with five different faces becoming prime minister in the last five years: Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull – and now, in the latest party-room coup, Scott Morrison, whom most Australians, let alone international observers, would struggle […]
Author Archives: Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans, foreign minister of Australia from 1988 to 1996 and president of the International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009, is chancellor of the Australian National University.