Australia
Remembering Martin Indyk, an American diplomat with Australian sensibilities
Martin Indyk was an accomplished negotiator, a creative diplomat, a brilliant scholar and a founding Board member of the Lowy Institute.One of the missions that Sir Frank Lowy…
Economic diplomacy: Looking beyond a 30-year anomaly
Joining the dotsTim Ayres is a little-known junior minister in the Albanese government. But Ayres nevertheless plays a symbolically significant role in bridging the traditional…
ASEAN centrality stands in the way of an Indonesia-Australia alliance
Sam Roggeveen has made the case in The Interpreter for Australia to seek out a defensive military pact with Indonesia to prevent Chinese domination of maritime Southeast Asia…
Byte-sized diplomacy: Privacy is alive and clicking
Got a big question on technology and security for “Byte-sized Diplomacy”. Send it through here.Question: Is it possible to protect privacy in a world of networks and surveillance…
To pick winners, be willing to discard losers
Mainstream economists are unenthusiastic about industrial policy, which is in crude terms seen as the government seeking to pick winners. But the Treasury department – the bastion…
Time to jumpstart Australia-India clean energy cooperation
Australia and India are already working together to advance their clean energy ambitions, but not on the scale that the relationship finds itself in other spheres.Serious efforts…
Cable ties: Defending seabed lines of communication
Australia is yet to adequately grapple with the unique challenges that critical seabed infrastructure protection poses to its defence and national security.In Europe, recent…
The NATO summit in Washington will be critical to Australia’s interests
Prime Minister Albanese will not attend the NATO Summit this week in Washington. Focused on domestic political issues, Albanese has been criticised for neglecting geopolitics at a…
Why Australia needs more flights to Latin America
November will be an exciting time for Australia’s relationship with Latin America. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to meet his Latin American counterparts at the APEC…
The time has come for an Australia‑Indonesia military pact
Australia is lucky to have Indonesia as a close neighbour. It’s true that Jakarta is often prickly. Indonesia has never been benign and friendly like New Zealand (we couldn’t get…