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  • 6 May 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • United States
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • China
    • Technology
    • International law

    Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists

    Greg Earl
    President Biden moves to suspend vaccine patents, RCEP ramps up, IA-CEPA gets a lesson and US dollar reserves tank.
  • 9 Feb 2021
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India and Australia: Beyond the three Cs

    Andrew Hunter
    It is unambiguously in Australia’s interest to strengthen our relationship with India in many aspects.
  • 28 Oct 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • India-Australia Relations
    • India

    Rebirth of the quadrilateral Malabar: Promises and portents for India

    Prakash Gopal
    The inclusion of Australia in the 2020 Exercise Malabar signals India’s resolve to defend its interests in the region.
  • 19 Oct 2020
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India-Australia security relations: They’ve only just begun

    Dhruva Jaishankar
    It’s fashionable to be pessimistic about the India-Australia partnership, but in fact it is steadily improving.
  • 2 Jun 2020
    • India's Military
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australian Air Force
    • Australia
    • India

    India-Australia strategic partnership: Leveraging aerospace capacity

    M Matheswaran
    The two countries have an opportunity to pursue air-power cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, where stability is essential.
  • 17 Dec 2019
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India and Australia, newfound friends?

    Aarti Betigeri
    Australia has been trying to get India’s attention for some time – and it seems it has finally managed to crack through.
  • 18 Apr 2019
    • Asia
    • India-Australia Relations
    • India

    Coal comfort: Australia-India ties after the elections

    Ian Hall
    A last minute approval for the controversial Adani coal mine has brought Australia-India relations into the campaign.
  • 18 Mar 2019
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India: never quite in focus

    Aarti Betigeri
    India deserves sustained closer scrutiny, but with Australian media groups shuttering bureaux, attention is fleeting.
  • 21 Jan 2019
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia

    Australia articulates its Indian Ocean priorities

    Dhruva Jaishankar
    Payne emphasised that it is in Australia’s vital national interest for the Indian Ocean to remain open and peaceful.
  • 20 Jul 2018
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    A blueprint for India–Australia economic relations

    Shyam Saran
    The strategic convergence between the countries is not matched by strong economic and commercial relations.
  • 10 Nov 2017
    • Maritime Security
    • India-Australia Relations
    • South China Sea
    • China
    • India

    Quad redux: A new agenda for Asia's maritime democracies

    Andrew Shearer
    It is sobering that Indian diplomats are talking of the Quad as a way to stiffen Australia’s spine.
  • 9 Nov 2017
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • US Navy
    • Australian Defence Force
    • India's Navy
    • India-Australia Relations
    • South China Sea
    • India
    • Japan

    A reborn quadrilateral to deter China

    John Hemmings
    Organising a loose strategic coalition might upset Beijing, but that's no reason not to forge ahead.
  • 8 Sep 2017
    • India's Navy
    • India-Australia Relations
    • India

    Indian Ocean ‘leadership’? Delhi’s boasts ignore reality

    Abhijit Singh
    Delhi’s political rhetoric about its dominant position in the Indian Ocean ignore the facts.
  • 23 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    A revived Quad won't help Australia

    Greg Raymond
    Australia has a perfect right to form associations, groupings, dialogues and alliances with whomever it chooses. But wise statecraft does not deal only with entitlements and rights.
  • 19 Jun 2017
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India-Australia relations: Getting over the Quad blues

    Abhijit Singh
    The view that India is reluctant to engage Australia in a multilateral naval setting because it is wary of Canberra’s strategic credentials lacks merit.
  • 1 May 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Where India fits in an activist Australian foreign policy

    James Curran
    Australia’s regional engagement in the years ahead can never be conceived within the US/China framework alone.
  • 26 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    India remains cautious about the 'quad'

    Abhijit Singh
    Indian policymakers still shy away from a grand maritime alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
  • 11 Apr 2017
    • Trade
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Migration

    Lessons from India on migration’s role in trade policy

    Henry Sherrell
    Australia would be well placed if it established a set of principles for migration when negotiating trade and other deals.
  • 10 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Turnbull’s India visit an opportunity to revive the Quad

    Lavina Lee
    Even if it was ahead of its time in 2007, the contemporary strategic logic of reviving the Quad is compelling.
  • 10 Jan 2017
    • India-Australia Relations

    Australia-India relations: Poised for take off

    Dhruva Jaishankar
    Amid increasing concerns about China and the US, Australia's relations with India have the potential to assume greater prominence.
  • 24 May 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Australia and India don't see eye to eye on the Indo-Pacific

    Darshana Baruah

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