Philippines journalist Michaela Del Callar quoted Jane in her article previewing the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meetings getting underway in Manila. Top ASEAN agenda items, the Myanmar civil war and halting return to democracy, and the South China Sea, are unlikely to resolve quickly. But all the ASEAN Dialogue Partners including the US, Russia, India and Australia are expected to converge on Manila.

Jane’s discussion with Dr Leon Gettler began with impacts of US-Iran hostilities, the Strait of Hormuz, global oil and LNG prices and how Australia may be affected. But they traversed wider ground including the Trump tariff wars on the rest of the world. Economics and politics are inseparable!

Adrian Zorzut from NEWS.COM.AU discussed with Jane the daily tit-for-tat hostilities playing out between the US and Iran, potential effects for all trading nations and particularly for Australia.

As US and Iran hostilities broke out again in the Strait of Hormuz and the region, Jane and news.com.au reporter Adrian discussed a range of immediate and likely future impacts on Australia.

Nearly a decade since the UN treaty whose signatories declare that nuclear weapons should be banned (the 2017 TPNW) and Australia’s Government has not signed on. Why? This seems a motherhood position. Jane discussed the issues relating to the TPNW and the largest and oldest treaty to control nukes, the UN Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (1970 NPT), with Kyle Evans from ABC online news.

Jane was interviewed by news.com.au’s Adrian Zorzut. Since the US and Iran signed a ceasefire MOU on 17 June, negotiations have been stop-start and once again hostilities and the price of crude oil are spiking. (This article is also available on my website as a Youtube video, listed under Broadcasts.)

Jane spoke with NEWS.COM.AU reporter Adrian Zorzut about options for diplomatic practice when bilateral tensions arise. Adrian’s article describes a range of responses to comments made by the People’s Republic of China Ambassador, in Canberra.

Jane and Sky News host Tom Connell’s discussion on 19 June about the US-Iran ceasefire Memorandum of Understanding focused on the nuclear negotiations which were to begin two days later.

In an interview with Russian media outlet TASS, Jane canvassed the immediate and potential long-term effects of the US-Iran ceasefire memorandum of understanding, including on nuclear weapons ambitions around the world.

Jane’s wide ranging conversation with The Diplomat’s Grant Wyeth explored the US-Iran conflict’s wider impact.

Coming soon…

Jane spoke with PIVOT, the flagship publication of the Monash International Affairs Society, exploring her three-decade long career within diplomacy and DFAT.

Writing for the Daily Straits, Jane examines why Australia's foreign aid program is a strategic investment rather than a simple outflow of capital.

Jane appeared on Sky News Weekend News Day with political reporter Reuben Spargo to offer analysis of the federal budget and Australia's evolving strategic environment.

Jane joined presenter Sally Sara on ABC Radio National Breakfast to discuss the federal budget's $53 billion commitment to defence spending over the next decade.

Jane spoke with presenter Jess McGuire on ABC NSW Statewide Drive about the federal budget's role in navigating a "disconcerting" global landscape.

Jane spoke about all manner of diplomatic experiences with Poppy Bell from the Young Diplomats Society.

Jane analyses the potential power and pitfalls of strategic messaging via formal bilateral diplomatic statements - many of which she has drafted for ministers and prime ministers during her 3 decade-long diplomatic career.

Flinders University colleagues refreshed and reframed the book Jane co-edited nearly thirty years prior, with a new publication launched and lauded.

Prior to joining Australian Government service, Jane worked on art history issues with colleagues at Flinders University in South Australia, and tapped into the generous and insightful people of Adelaide and Central Australia who knew indigenous Arrente artist Albert Namatjira as his beautiful watercolour artworks became world-famous in the 1950s. Namatjira in many ways laid the foundations for today’s renaissance in Australian Aboriginal art.

Jane is a regular contributor to articles by Philippines journalist Michaela del Callar, focused on long-standing concerns about China’s activities in the South China Sea.

In the last two years, North Korea has emerged as newly weaponised and more deeply integrated with China and Russia. How did we get here? Jane reflects on these and other questions - going back to her first official visit to Pyongyang in 2001 - surrounding a dangerous strategic situation which has continued to evolve close to home.

Jane was interviewed by Yoshihiro MAKINO, who writes for a major Japanese daily newspaper the Asahi Shimbun, about the signals coming from North Korea, and prospects for another Trump-Kim summit.

The first of two articles about reading the tea-leaves in North Korea, Jane reflects on her experiences as a diplomat visiting Pyongyang more than two decades ago, and what we might have heard wrong.

The second of two articles about emerging signals from a nuclear-armed North Korea and President Trump’s personal connection to its leader Kim Jong-u, Jane speculates about the drivers for another Trump-Kim summit.

Jane is a regular contributor to articles by POLITICO journalist Phelim Kine in Washington, and comments on the impact of US domestic politics and President Trump’s trade wars on the Australia-India-Japan-US Quad.

What did we see and hear in Pyongyang, and hear from North Korean officials, through the hopeful days of the 2000s, when we joined with close allies to try to convince the Kim Jong-il regime to give up nuclear weapons and to open up the country’s economy Vietnam-style? Clearly we failed. Kim’s son, Kim Jong-un has technology and nuclear material enough for 50 warheads, cyber hacking on an industrial scale and swathes of North Koreans live in poverty and servitude.

Jane is a regular contributor to articles by Philippines journalist Michaela del Callar, focused on long-standing concerns about China’s activities in the South China Sea.

Jane discusses with the ANU’s Professor Mark Kenny Chinese leader Xi Jingping’s strategic jamboree with the world’s most powerful autocrats, who in September 2025 all stood with Xi on a balcony overlooking Tiananmen Square, in a photo-op straight from 1949.