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James Curran

James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.

Barack Obama knows, even if he finds it painful to admit, that the uplift he gave the US was ‘‘fleeting’’.

Obama's memoir is an elegant elegy for the fraying thread that links the US

Barack Obama's first volume of memoirs runs to the end of his first term in the White House when he led the US at a time when the post-war consensus in the country was breaking down.

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United States President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison om Washington on the weekend.

Despite pledges of eternal mateship, US and Australia not on song on China

Morrison has not delivered the harder line on China that the White House was looking for.

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