My guest today is Peter Varghese AO who amongst other things served as the former head of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and who currently serves as the Chancellor of the University of Queensland. Today we discuss:

• How to determine what is important and not in foreign affairs
• How diplomats generally missed the rise of Donald Trump and failed to properly understand the pressures that propelled him to the Presidency
• Whether our trade relationship with China needs to be readjusted
• Why did Australia get involved in many of the foreign interventions over the last 30+ years and whether places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere should be considered successes?
• Whether foreign student numbers are too high in Australia
• Whether he is optimistic for the future

And much m ...