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Is Obama the money man?
29 September 2008
Herald Sun
The US Congress is set to pass a financial bailout package, and Barack Obama seems a step closer to the White House, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
Debate a telling test of character
29 September 2008
The Canberra Times
Lesley Russell writes that it was not surprising that a significant part of the presidential debate that was supposed to be on foreign policy and international affairs focused instead on the economic crisis. Read Article
Geoffrey Garrett interview on presidential candidates
28 September 2008
Sky News Sunday Agenda
Helen Dalley interviewed Geoffrey Garrett about the strategies of presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama. Watch Online
Geoffrey Garrett commentates on first presidential debate
27 September 2008
SBS World News Australia
Geoffrey Garrett appeared as a commentator during the broadcast of the first presidential debates on World News Australia.
Campaigning during a crisis
26 September 2008
Australia Network
Geoffrey Garrett speaks about the battle between McCain and Obama in relation to the US financial crisis. Watch Online
Mark Colvin interviews Geoffrey Garrett
26 September 2008
ABC Radio PM
Mark Colvin speaks to Geoffrey Garrett on the impact of the economic crisis on the US presidential race. Listen Online
McCain, Obama debates crucial
26 September 2008
The Canberra Times
This US economic crisis threatens to leave the next president with a $1 trillion debt that will seriously impact on his ability to implement any election promise, whether it is health-care reform or tax cuts, writes Lesley Russell. Read Article
$500,000 boost for innovation
26 September 2008
The Daily Telegraph
Jenny Dillon reports on the announcement of the US Studies Centre's innovation program funded by Merck & Co. Read Article
Sacred sights
26 September 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tracey Clement writes about the Chromatic Visions exhibition at the Sydney College of the Arts. The US Studies Centre sponsored the exhibition. Read Article
Wall Street melts down, Obama the big winner?
26 September 2008
ABC News
While the world waits with bated breath to see whether the US Congress will enact the Bush administration's $US700 billion Wall Street bailout, a national interest ceasefire seems to have broken out in America's partisan warfare, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
US Studies Centre head to give live TV commentary on US presidential debates
26 September 2008
The United States Studies Centre's Professor Geoffrey Garrett will be a commentator on national television coverage of the upcoming US presidential debates. Read Media Release
US Studies Centre to offer $100,000 in research grants
24 September 2008
The United States Studies Centre is to offer Australian academics research grants totalling $100,000 to support US focused research in the humanities and social sciences. The Centre's Director of Programs and Operations, Dr Sean Gallagher, said this new initiative provided an opportunity to support wide-ranging research that covered political, economic, historical, social and cultural issues. Read Media Release
Presidential Candidates on Hack
22 September 2008
Triple J TV
Pre-presidential election report featuring interviews with US Studies Centre students and footage of the Centre's presidential debate screening. Watch Online
Cutler priorities lack innovation
22 September 2008
The Australian Financial Review
Joanna Mather quotes Dr Thomas Barlow in an article about the innovation priorities slated by the Cutler review.
US Studies Centre announces Merck Innovation Program
22 September 2008
The United States Studies Centre today announced a major new program to promote innovation in Australia. Funded by a grant from global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. (known as Merck Sharp & Dohme in Australia) worth USD $500,000 over four years, the program will analyse the United States' rich and varied innovation experiences, assess their adaptability to the Australian context, and promote innovation linkages between the two countries. Read Media Release
Australia could prove big loser in global market crunch
19 September 2008
The Courier Mail
Geoffrey Garrett writes that Australia could be the big loser if the US turns inward and retreats from the global economy after a trillion dollars was wiped off the US stock market. Read Article
Fear shrivels US
19 September 2008
Herald Sun
With one trillion dollars wiped off the US stock market this year, the smart money says this will improve Barack Obama's hopes of a presidential victory, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
Disconnect between what the world wants, and what America wants
19 September 2008
The Huffington Post
Trish Mitchell writes commentary on Geoffrey Garrett's public lecture at the Senate Theatre of Parliament House. Read Blog
'Anti-Americanism' in Australia
18 September 2008
ABC Unleashed
Dennis Phillips writes that the presidency of George W. Bush has elevated anti-Americanism to a global sport more popular in some quarters than World Cup Football. The end of the Cold War, the emergence, at least temporarily, of the United States as the world's 'hyper-power', and Bush's unfortunate first-term tendency to act unilaterally and then boast about it have inspired many to sound off about how much they hate America. Read Article
Fallout from US financial crisis hits Asia hard
17 September 2008
ABC Radio Australia
Karon Snowdon reports on the US financial crisis following the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, with comments by Geoffrey Garrett. Listen Online
Either president may disappoint us
12 September 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald
Geoffrey Garrett writes that despite opinion surveys showing most of the world prefers Obama as the next US president, both Obama and McCain may disappoint. Read Article
Geoffrey Garrett on the meteoric rise of Sarah Palin
10 September 2008
SBS Radio
Interview with Geoffrey Garrett about the meteoric rise of Republican Sarah Palin and the new challenges for Democrat Barack Obama in the US presidential campaign. Listen Online
E-news: 10 September 2008
10 September 2008
In this edition:
- Insider's Analysis
- Chromatic Visions Celebration
- Human Costs of the Iraqi Conflict
- Commentators' Corner
- Bob Hawke on Hedley Bull
- McCain & Obama at Hit at Manning Bar
- Inside the Convention
- New Horizons Success
- Facebook Fans
- Election Watch Website Read More
Attack dog from Alaska puts new life into McCain's mojo
8 September 2008
Herald Sun
The national conventions for the Republican and Democratic parties over the past two weeks have turned upside down the race for the White House, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
Age and youth a mixed bunch
1 September 2008
Herald Sun
Geoffrey Garrett writes that John McCain is rediscovering his mercurial maverick stride in naming the young, essentially unknown female Sarah Palin from the wilds of Alaska as his running mate in the presidential election. Read Article
Great expectations: What a post-Bush world will mean for Australia
1 September 2008
The Diplomat
Change is coming but the next US president will be far less transformative than what the pageant of expectations would have us believe, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
