Stan Grant
Stan Grant is the Vice Chancellor's Chair of Australian/Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University. He was formerly ABC's Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst.
He is one of Australia's most respected and awarded journalists, with more than 30 years experience in radio and television news and current affairs. Stan has a strong reputation for independence and integrity and has interviewed international political and business leaders, including our own prime ministers and senior ministers.
Prior to taking up his latest role Stan served for a decade at a Senior International Correspondent for CNN in Asia and the Middle East, broadcasting to an audience of millions around the world.
He has interviewed numerous world leaders including Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Shimon Peres, Bill Clinton, and Australian Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, and Malcolm Turnbull.
Stan has won numerous international and Australian awards including a Peabody Award, Columbia University Alfred I. duPont award, four times winner of the prestigious Asia TV awards including best news story and reporter of the year, twice winner of the coveted Australian Walkley Award, as well as a TV Logie award, GQ Magazine agenda setter of the year and an Australian Academy of Arts Cinema and Television Award (Australia's Oscars) as male TV presenter of the year.
Stan is an award winning and best selling author of several books and has contributed articles to many major Australian newspapers, magazines and journals.
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analysis: Ghosts, a reckoning and a man out of time: Why we're haunted by 1989
By Stan Grant
History delivered Mikhail Gorbachev to the reckoning of 1989, a time of upheaval and revolution. But the past was lying in wait. The end of the Cold War would unleash the forces of neoliberalism that would in time eat at the heart of democracy itself, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: In 1989, China and the Soviet Union took different paths. History shows who won
By Stan Grant
Mikhail Gorbachev was swept up in the forces that drove the collapse of the Soviet Union, while Deng Xiaoping made sure the Chinese Communist Party would survive, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Why are so many athletes forced to defend their right to exist?
By Stan Grant
Pluralism and multiculturalism often rub uncomfortably against questions of shared beliefs or rights and sport is floundering. But we can't be sure of our own beliefs until we have opened our minds to others who disagree with us, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Morrison's secret appointments reveal an insidious weakening of the guardrails of our democracy
By Stan Grant
The revelation that Scott Morrison was secretly appointed to five additional ministries has alerted us to an insidious weakening of the soft guardrails of our democracy, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: What is happening in China today has happened before in the West. So what can we learn from history?
By Stan Grant
If the West is to avert a drift to catastrophic war, is now not the time to present China with a more virtuous and strong global order that it might not only emulate, but find impossible to resist, asks Stan Grant.
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analysis: What if the only way to correct our climate crisis is to recover the power of myth?
By Stan Grant
Science accelerated the world's population, shrunk our world, made us richer and brought us closer together. Yet science has put in our hands the capacity to destroy life on the planet. This is our deal with the devil, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: The lesson the US ignores at its peril: You can't kill your way to victory
By Stan Grant
US President Joe Biden has claimed a victory in the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri. We heard the same thing from Barack Obama when he got Osama bin Laden. The lesson is you can not kill your way to victory, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: We have a massive opportunity to become an Australia we've only ever glimpsed
By Stan Grant
At a time when democracy is under siege, the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an attempt to thread the needle between "diversity" and "difference", and an opportunity to think about the space between "being" and "belonging", writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: As the West grapples with what it stands for, authoritarians stand with certainty
By Stan Grant
US President Joe Biden has framed the war in Ukraine as a contest between autocracy and democracy. It begs the question then: just what is this fight for, asks Stan Grant.
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analysis: In a bid to uphold the global order, Biden is betting on another despot
By Stan Grant
This is what the global rules-based order looks like: US President Joe Biden sitting down with a Saudi leader with blood on his hands, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: The latest census has a message: God is dead and we have killed him
By Stan Grant
Western ideas of progress are founded on burying the past, killing God, and making the human divine. It can be liberating and holds the promise of freedom. But it doesn't speak to all, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: The world is in the grip of a perfect storm — and our savings glut won't protect us
By Stan Grant
Bob Marley said it best: a hungry man is an angry man. And the poet William Blake cast it in even more apocalyptic terms. They knew hungry people drive revolution. Economic strife is a harbinger of unrest and inflation was dangerous. Now it is back, writes Stan Grant.
Posted Updated How two men challenged two words and changed Australia
By Stan Grant
As a young reporter, I saw a listing for a case at the High Court of Australia. Few Australians then knew the name Eddie Mabo but I sensed this case may change Australia, says Stan Grant in this extract from his 2022 Mabo Lecture.
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analysis: Morrison questioned why he'd take a Voice to Parliament to a referendum. So why would Peter Dutton?
By Stan Grant
The Uluru Statement and the voice to parliament referendum will help define the Albanese government. But it will also tell us what sort of leader Peter Dutton will be — whether he'll see it as a gift, or a political weapon, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: The bullies of Beijing are just one of many foreign policy challenges facing Labor
By Stan Grant
Under Scott Morrison, the defence minister led a more muscular approach to China while foreign affairs took a back seat. For Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong, getting the mix of security, defence and diplomacy right will be critical, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: A bad moon is rising and this is another dying gasp of an old order
By Stan Grant
A wave of protest has washed over our federal election. The people are speaking, yet political leaders hear only what they want, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Australia's spy chief is worried about autocracy in our region. Here's why
By Stan Grant
The belief in unending progress and utopian visions leads us to freedom and democracy, but it also leads to the gulag and the gas chamber, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Green is in, black is out: The stark message we're hearing this election
By Stan Grant
There are real discussions to be had about Indigenous constitutional recognition, justice and morality. But in this election campaign we are not even having the conversation, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: The Solomons-China pact is a wake-up call for Australia but we're ill-prepared for war
By Stan Grant
Australia is drawing red lines and talking of war after China's security pact with Solomon Islands. But, if we are concerned about China's growing power, we are looking in the wrong place, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Australia's irrational culture wars are eroding our democracy — but there is hope
By Stan Grant
Australia is one of the world's robust democracies but we are falling prey to the American disease of incessant culture wars that inflame passions and obscure reason. And it comes at great cost to us all, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: While for many Easter means a welcome break and chocolate eggs, it also asks us to answer the hardest of questions
By Stan Grant
Anger is a double-edged sword: it can inspire courage and, as we see too often in our world, it can lock us in a deadly embrace from which none of us can escape, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Pope Francis was prescient. What he saw as a 'piecemeal world war' now looks terribly real
By Stan Grant
It is nearly a decade since Pope Francis warned of World War III, and how prescient he was. What the Pontiff saw as a "piecemeal world war" now looks terribly real, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Race and racism runs deep in America — and Chris Rock and Will Smith
By Stan Grant
Will Smith and Chris Rock are wealthy, privileged and famous black people, but that doesn't mean they can't also be scarred by racism. And while the science of inherited trauma continues to be debated, collective memory need not be destiny, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Why Putin's invasion of Ukraine is an utterly modern holy war
By Stan Grant
It is not possible to understand the war in Ukraine without understanding the way faith is weaponised, how religion as identity can exert a deadly hold, writes Stan Grant.
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analysis: Is now the moment for a daring diplomatic move that resets the global order?
By Stan Grant
At the height of the Cold War, Richard Nixon visited Mao Zedong in Beijing for a meeting that set the world on a new course. Now, 50 years later, Joe Biden may be making similar calculations, writes Stan Grant.
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