18 May 2018 10:30
BREAKING: foreign influence campaign exposed!
An Interpreter exclusive reveals the insidious co-opting of Australian media and politicians.
Long reads
18 May 2018 6:00
Indonesia: a concrete block and a hard case
A unique protest has still failed to cement support for Indonesian farmers.
17 May 2018 15:00
Philippines: justice removed, justice denied
The dismissal of the Supreme Court chief justice signals the demise of the rule of law in Asia’s oldest democracy.
17 May 2018 13:00
Timor-Leste election: the generation gap
A peaceful election and decisive result is a win for stability, but it has come at the cost of youth leadership.
17 May 2018 11:30
Digital Asia links: ode to the Belt n’ Road, rumour quasher, more
Sarah Logan with digital updates from across the region.
17 May 2018 10:00
The misunderstood AIIB
China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank clearly does not challenge the global governance status-quo.
17 May 2018 6:00
What PNG hopes to win from hosting APEC
The aim of staging a major summit might be to put the country on the global diplomatic map, but at what cost?
16 May 2018 15:00
Bolton’s bargain: a Libya deal for North Korea?
New US National Security Adviser John Bolton might draw on past experience when negotiating with Kim Jong-un.
16 May 2018 14:00
Time to sharpen the edge of Australia’s soft power
Two decades of yo-yoing government policy on international broadcasting has diminished Australia’s once significant presence in the Great Game of the Airwaves.
26 Apr 2018 12:00
Beyond scandal: Facebook and Indonesian politics
More than a million Indonesian profiles are said to have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
24 Apr 2018 6:00
Kim Jong-un made Donald Trump an offer he couldn’t refuse
Plenty of attention has been paid to the perils of the likely US–North Korea summit, but little has been said about the risks Trump would have faced had he declined Pyongyang’s offer.
15 May 2018 13:00
Surabaya and the ISIS family
From the beginning, ISIS has been a family affair.
3 May 2018 11:00
India’s struggle for the soul of the Indo-Pacific
New Delhi must gear up for a sustained struggle to ensure openness, transparency, and a healthy balance of power.
4 May 2018 12:00
I (nearly) ran Iran
A marathon trip to find that, no matter where you go, people are people.
8 May 2018 17:30
Mourning Cambodia’s press freedom
The media crackdown continues with the sacking of the country’s last independent newspaper editor.
23 Apr 2018 10:30
The Beijing way of trade punishment
China has a bigger adversary to contend with before picking fights with Australia.
25 Apr 2018 13:15
Harry Harris and the ambassadorial absence
Alliance sentimentalists are wrong to judge the entire heath of the US–Australia relationship through one diplomatic appointment.
7 May 2018 9:00
Working with China in the Pacific
Development partners, and Pacific nations themselves, need to be better coordinated.
28 Mar 2018 10:00
Mekong: more dams, more damage
Asia’s great river is under growing threat from hydropower.
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16 Mar 2018 15:15
Australia, Asia, and the “Wealth of Nations”
A new World Bank report allows stronger judgments about economic issues facing the region.
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7 Mar 2018 10:00
A “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” and what it means for Australia
The recently revived Quadrilateral is evolving and less explicitly focused on defence issues.
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22 Feb 2018 12:30
The hidden epidemic in the shanty towns of Honiara
Diarrhoea is a killer in Solomon Islands, and climate change will only increase its danger.
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14 Feb 2018 7:00
Malaysia’s election – electric and exhausting
Politicians might talk political tactics and leave the public bored, but a real contest is brewing.
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1 Feb 2018 16:55
Sea cables in a thawing Arctic
A trans-Arctic sea cable would afford the Kremlin a significant opportunity to demonstrate its role in developing the Arctic commons.
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29 Jan 2018 10:21
Democracy and peace frustrated in Myanmar: remembering U Ko Ni
The lawyer's death was a targeted campaign against those advocating for the end of military rule through constitutional change.
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19 Jan 2018 10:11
Despite the controversy, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal is a success
There are many yardsticks beyond counting convictions for judging the achievements of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
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16 Jan 2018 9:23
Worries as New Caledonia’s independence vote approaches
An economy in bad shape compounds painful memories as the French territory struggles with questions of independence.
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