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  • 17 hours ago
    • Bangladesh
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Australia’s support for Bangladesh will bolster regional stability

    David Brewster
    It's not clear what Washington hopes to achieve in isolating Dhaka, but Canberra must take a different tack.
  • 18 Sep 2023
    • China
    • Seychelles
    • Australia
    • United States
    • Africa

    Seychelles: Washington comes calling

    Ashton Robinson
    Small island states are back on the diplomatic agenda with the West looking for strategic depth in the Indian Ocean region.
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Critical minerals, critical choices: Australia’s role in shaping the green revolution

    Connor O’Brien
    “Resource nationalism” only poses a threat to mining policy if the government pretends it’s not happening.
  • 14 Sep 2023
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: ASEAN bound, but words are not enough

    Greg Earl
    The latest Australian bid to increase economic ties with Southeast Asia provides new hopes amid old ghosts.
  • 13 Sep 2023
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Multilateral Institutions

    The crucial role for the Green Climate Fund – and why Australia should contribute

    Georgia Hammersley , Melanie Pill , Roland Rajah
    It’s vital to international climate solidarity and Australia rejoining is key to unlocking more global funding for the Pacific.
  • 12 Sep 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Sex and Gender

    Finding a place for youth leadership in Australia’s new International Development Policy

    Helen Berents , Katrina Lee-Koo
    Young people will be central to addressing regional challenges so their meaningful inclusion must be ensured.
  • 11 Sep 2023
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy

    In Australia’s big play in Southeast Asia, mobilising the private sector is critical

    Georgie Skipper
    A stand-off over perceived risks and rewards has long hampered Australia’s economic engagement in the region but a new strategy marks a strong step forward.
  • 7 Sep 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Does Australia lack strategic imagination on aid and development?

    Soli Middleby , Susan Engel
    A debate on fundamentals is sorely needed but conspicuously lacking.
  • 1 Sep 2023
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force

    The Philippines and Australia: A new golden era of strategic relations?

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Canberra’s defence ties with Manila have gone from strength to strength. Now it’s time to step up economic linkages.
  • 31 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Economic diplomacy: Spirit of Australia charts a fresh course

    Greg Earl
    The government is fashioning a more interventionist economic leg to the new amity between its aid policy, regional diplomacy and military spending.
  • 29 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Review

    A compelling voice for rethinking Australia’s national security

    Gareth Evans
    Sam Roggeveen’s Echidna Strategy rightly challenges Australia to act as a diplomatic powerhouse, not a military one.
  • 29 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Climate change: Counting the costs and opportunities

    Ryan Neelam
    Australia needs to think beyond the price of transition and move quickly to become a renewable energy superpower.
  • 28 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Emerging Threats
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • United States

    Australia and the UN: A new agenda for peace

    Adam Bartley , Charles T. Hunt , Aiden Warren
    Multilateral responses to the threats of new and emerging tech – from AI warfare to bioweapons – are crucial to success.
  • 25 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    The social licence for AUKUS has not yet been earned

    Peter K. Lee , Alice Nason , Sophie Mayo
    Convincing Australians that nuclear-powered subs are needed, and worth the $368 billion price tag, is a hard sell.
  • 24 Aug 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Technology

    Cash is king, no more

    Hilman Palaon
    Digital payments have transformed Australia, but global financial infrastructure for a cashless society still has some catching up to do.
  • 23 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Cracking the code: How intelligence and cyber reshaped Australian statecraft

    John Blaxland
    A richer story is told by placing signals intelligence in historical and contemporary context.
  • 18 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region

    Andrea Fahey
    Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours.
  • 17 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Slicing up a new aid menu

    Greg Earl
    Australia is persisting with a homemade mix of old and new financing tools to be the development dining partner of choice in the region.
  • 16 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Can the Matildas waltz onto the world stage for Australia’s sport diplomacy?

    Tim Harcourt
    Sporting ambassadors have previously helped with big international investments. Let’s go again.
  • 9 Aug 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Resource security
    • Technology
    • Iran

    Iran’s lithium lode: A potential strategic game-changer

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Australia might find itself on a political and economic tightrope as China looks to diversify its options for the new oil of our times.
  • 8 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia

    International development: Putting the heart back in Australian foreign policy

    Marc Purcell
    The government has taken a big step after listening to regional partners – now it has a chance to fill in the details.
  • 7 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Issues

    Why universities are still at risk for foreign interference

    Brendan Walker-Munro
    Australian universities are vulnerable as open and collaborative institutions. With more sensitive research underway, they are also part of the solution.
  • 4 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Pacific Islands
    • Africa
    • Sex and Gender

    Women belong everywhere and this World Cup proves football can be the great equaliser

    Jessica Collins
    Respect for female athletes “tearing it up on the pitch” must translate into respect off the field, too.
  • 3 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Hard labour managing geo-economic fragmentation

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces tough choices from aid to energy in a new world of government intervention in trade and industry.
  • 3 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • United States

    The vanishing options for Julian Assange

    Donald R Rothwell
    Extradition for the WikiLeaks founder to the United States looks likely unless Anthony Albanese can persuade Joe Biden otherwise.
  • 1 Aug 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Quad
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Something fishy about China’s anger over the Quad’s open ocean plans

    Denny Roy
    Even illegal fishing is politicised amid growing China-US tensions.
  • 27 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    An agenda for the AUSMIN talks

    Sam Roggeveen
    Australia should spend less time worrying about American strength – and more time thinking about its resolve.
  • 27 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Global Issues
    • International law

    Nuclear weapons: “Oppenheimer” won’t make a difference, but Australia can

    Gareth Evans
    The movie missed a chance to galvanise a renewed campaign, to better protect against existential danger than rely on sheer dumb luck.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • Coronavirus

    It’s no surprise Australia shrugged off China’s campaign of trade coercion

    Roland Rajah
    New modelling confirms an early Lowy Institute conclusion that Beijing’s bluster would cause minimal economic damage.
  • 25 Jul 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia

    What is Australia’s role in supporting Timor-Leste?

    Melissa Conley Tyler , Grant Wyeth
    Health and education are where Canberra can help Dili the most. But language barriers require thinking outside the box.
  • 21 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Review

    Nobody ever teaches anyone how to be a Minister

    Mark Pierce
    At the heart of Australia’s Westminster democracy is an eclectic, eccentric, DIY political system.
  • 20 Jul 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Japan’s message in a gas bottle

    Greg Earl
    More than hot air, economics is the essence of national security in Australia’s resource deficient closest Asian partner.
  • 20 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    The north’s defence of Australia

    Luke Gosling
    Northern Australia has long been viewed as a strategic vulnerability. The latest Defence review socialises a different idea.
  • 17 Jul 2023
    • China
    • Japan
    • Taiwan
    • Australia
    • United States

    The emergence of “collective strategic ambiguity” on Taiwan

    Rupert Schulenburg
    With a change in language, has Washington over-promised on its allies’ appetite for conflict with China?
  • 14 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Technology

    Australia and Southeast Asia: Driving EV collaboration across borders

    Nicholas Basan
    A regional value chain for battery production – with Australia to process critical minerals and export these products – is too good a chance to ignore.
  • 10 Jul 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology
    • United States

    The Quad: Tackling the spider, not cobwebs, in cyberspace

    Ravi Nayyar
    A security pact, but not as we know it. How a commitment to uplift software security will reap benefits for all.
  • 7 Jul 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Solomon Islands

    Geopolitical duel in the Pacific: Solomon Islands security at risk as Australia and China compete

    Anna Powles
    Honiara has successfully leveraged strategic competition to meet its security interests but there are worrying signs of friction.
  • 6 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability

    Economic diplomacy: Power shifts with Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Australia and Indonesia may be riding together in a new electric diplomatic limo, but they still have separate roadmaps.
  • 6 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Ukraine

    Australia’s absent ambassador must return to Ukraine

    Dave Sharma
    If the PM won’t provide more than a few military off-casts in support, sending back the top envoy should be an easy step.
  • 5 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom

    Stumped by the cricket controversy? Here’s how sport and politics collide

    Hugh Piper
    When PMs weigh in on the “spirit”, you might start to wonder about the effect on oft-cited shared values.
  • 5 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    The downsides for Australia from the US‑PNG defence agreement

    Henry Storey
    Sovereignty concerns about the American deal will create additional hurdles for Australia-PNG Defence Treaty currently under negotiation.
  • 4 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Public Opinion

    Suspicious minds: Will closer Australia‑Indonesia engagement yield greater trust?

    Ryan Neelam
    Despite the flourishing bromance between Albanese and Jokowi, the Lowy Institute Poll shows an ongoing need to deepen public understanding and familiarity on both sides.
  • 4 Jul 2023
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Reforming Australia’s trading system – a long hard slog but worth the effort

    Jenny Gordon
    Confidence in the quality of traded goods and services relies on certification that agreed standards are met. That’s a regulation challenge, too.
  • 3 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Jokowi’s visit to Australia is about much more than electric vehicles

    Hilman Palaon
    The President has a roadmap for economic success that could also set bilateral relations on the right path.
  • 30 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • France

    How Australia can leverage France’s Indo-Pacific presence

    Hugh Piper , Eglantine Staunton
    A tumultuous couple of years in relations can settle to a new acceptance – seeing opportunities as well as risks.
  • 26 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Public Opinion

    Australians stand with Ukraine – but attention won’t last indefinitely

    Elizabeth Buchanan
    The latest Lowy Poll should be a warning about the risk of not debating the end goal in a conflict.
  • 22 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Public Opinion

    Lowy Poll 2023: Australians still jittery about China in the Pacific

    Jessica Collins
    Just like Pacific nations themselves, the public are waiting to see pledges by new government translated into outcomes.
  • 21 Jun 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    O'Farrell leaves India with ties to Australia at a high point

    Navdeep Suri
    The incoming High Commissioner has big shoes to fill after a remarkable time of rekindled relations.
  • 21 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • Public Opinion

    The “somewhat” conundrum: Lack of communication bedevils AUKUS support

    David Vallance
    The latest Lowy Institute Poll reveals Australians are no more convinced about the merits of the subs deal than last year.
  • 16 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy

    Finding opportunity in Australia’s liquid fuel security challenge

    Heidi Hauf , Christian Bennett
    Sustainable Aviation Fuel – whether for Defence or commercial aviation requirements – can help fix a national problem.
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