The wisest course from here would seem to be reopening discussions with Tehran about Gulf security and an American-imposed sanctions regime. But this will be easier said than done.
How a man whose shambolic personal life goes beyond tabloid fodder is about to hold the same office as Churchill, Wilson and Thatcher is little short of astonishing.
Liberal senator James Paterson’s claim that a Religious Discrimination Act is needed because people like Israel Folau “feel like they are being crowded out of the public square’’ is at best dubious, and at worst scaremongering.