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Anthony Burke

Glasgow: a tipping point for serious action

Alyssa Leng , Roland Rajah

Assessing Australia’s role in global vaccine equity

Benjamin Tallis

“Strategic autonomy” is more dangerous for Europe than AUKUS

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Yatharth Kachiar, Priya Vijaykumar Poojary 27 Oct 2021 06:00

AUKUS? Quad? FOIP? A fragmented approach cannot counter China

Only a coherent policy for the Indo-Pacific will work. The West needs to offer a strong economic balance to Beijing.
Jane McAdam 26 Oct 2021 10:00

Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change

King tides, cyclones, floods and drought are already displacing large numbers of people each year – where will they go?
Mihai Sora 26 Oct 2021 06:00

Overcoming community resistance to vaccination in Papua New Guinea

Increasing public demand for vaccines is the key to improving the country’s economic prospects and public safety.
Shahar Hameiri 25 Oct 2021 16:00

Australia and Digicel: Hands-off no more?

Financing the takeover of a Pacific telco firm amounts to a marked shift in the government’s industrial philosophy.
Anthony Burke 25 Oct 2021 11:00

Glasgow: a tipping point for serious action

Worrying signs suggest these most consequential of climate change talks are being set up for failure.
Nina Markovic Khaze 25 Oct 2021 10:00

There is life in the Non-Alignment Movement yet

This 60-year-old Cold War relic is finding new voice as a venue separated from institutions of the West.
Alyssa Leng, Roland Rajah 25 Oct 2021 06:00

Assessing Australia’s role in global vaccine equity

Australia has been more generous than most but as geopolitical as China.
Benjamin Tallis 22 Oct 2021 13:00

“Strategic autonomy” is more dangerous for Europe than AUKUS

Breaking from the United States would militarise the European Union to the extent that it would become unrecognisable.
Ben Bland 22 Oct 2021 10:00

ASEAN muddles through on Myanmar

An interesting regional precedent is set by the decision to stop the junta leader attending upcoming summit meetings.

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Long Reads

Would a war over Taiwan be legal?

Ben Saul

International law defines statehood and provides the rules of war, but ambiguities abound in the case of Taiwan.
SSN vs SSK

Hugh White

Time on station or a numbers game? The answer depends on the mission for Australia’s submarine fleet.
Australia should scale up its vaccine diplomacy

Philippa Nicole Barr

Is Australia undermining its own efforts to help other countries in the pandemic?

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More hot air? Climate diplomacy and COP26

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