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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.

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.

While head of Arms Control work in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jane met and worked with US Obama senior official and former top nuclear negotiator, Dr Rose Gottemoeller. Now at Stanford University, Rose delivered the Lowy Institute’s annual strategic policy lecture in Sydney on a surprising topic - whether President Trump might just pull of a ground-breaking nuclear pact between the thee most powerful nuclear weapons states. 

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 joined veteran American military chief and cyber czar, Mike Rogers, to highlight risks associated with open market competition laws on digital access in Europe, which would open up to ordinary people’s phones and laptops to direct attacks.

POLITICO journalists focused on the Australia-India-Japan-United States Quadrilateral Dialogue spoke to Jane about Australia’s interests and aims for the group, as the US transitioned from Presidents Biden to Trump.

Australia has spent four decades building diplomatic mini-laterals in our region. Japan has been a steadfast and effective partner in our aims, particularly former PM Kishida.

For Indo-Pacific stability and security, there is no more important relationship than that between South Korea and Japan - and the United States forged a breakthrough pact which we hope will be sustained.

Though geographically far away, the world’s most comprehensive and powerful collective military treaty, NATO, remains fundamental to Australia's interests.

Australia’s Defence Minister stood in for the PM at a critical moment in NATO’s history, but Jane believes the PM himself should have been there.

North Korea is one of the world’s most impoverished and isolated nations - one with nuclear weapons - but its young leader has forged new and dangerous liaisons with old ally Russia.

In 2021 while servicing Australia’s head diplomat in Hawaii, Jane met with the US Defense Secretary at the INDOPACOM Change of Command and heard his groundbreaking ideas about integrated deterrence among allies.

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.

On this special anniversary, Jane wrote of her conversations with the North Korean foreign minister in Pyongyang, and realised the magnitude of his misreading of the US response to the 9/11 terror attacks.

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.