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 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.

Jane joined United States Studies Centre colleagues to analyse the significance of the 2025 NATO summit, as President Trump’s verbal attacks on the world’s largest military alliance escalated.

Jane and colleague Jersey Lee discuss issues affecting the Australia-US Alliance as the Trump Administration began an unorthodox and disruptive era for its allies and partners.

Jane was interviewed about her experiences negotiating with the US by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Nick Bryant, as President Trump began to mount a trade tariff assault on most of the world. 

In 2013, the Australian Government was developing a flagship document ’The Asian Century’. Jane worked with her Canberra colleagues to develop a series of seminars and speeches, which she delivered in Madrid in English and Spanish, to explore Australia’s global foreign policy perspectives and highlight our region’s calibrations as China was rising economically and strategically. Much has changed since 2013.

Jane and United States Studies Centre colleagues discuss her USSC Policy Paper on new ideas about integrated deterrence as articulated by then-US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Jane interviewed two military stars, former US General David Petraeus and former Australian Major General Duncan Lewis who led our respective military alliance responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US.

A rare chance to do some focused work with the United States Studies Centre at Sydney University - while still a serving diplomat (on leave) newly returned from her posting to the US Indo-Pacific Command in Honolulu - produced some ideas for whole-of-government work on the US-Australia Alliance.