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  • 10 Jan 2025
    • China
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    “The sinews are coming together”: But pushback against China in Asia plays out still

    Shashank Joshi
    Reflecting on the views of Australian observers revealed during a Lowy Institute Fellowship.
  • 9 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Sustainability
    • Africa

    Responsible mining and Australia’s leadership opportunity in Africa

    Christopher Burke
    Ensuring environmental, social and governance standards isn’t just good practice – it’s an advantage commercially and in foreign policy.
  • 6 Jan 2025
    • India
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Africa

    Test Cricket’s world cup forgets what’s best about the game

    Hugh Piper
    Cricket’s centre of power has long outgrown its colonial roots.
  • 3 Jan 2025
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia

    Australia and ASEAN: A storied history

    Sue Thompson
    After 50 years of dialogue, the relationship has matured on economic, political, and strategic interests.
  • 2 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Sex and Gender

    Study exposes gender gap in foreign affairs reporting

    Andrea Carson
    Not only with male reporters, but the experts likely to be quoted or appear on opinion pages.
  • 30 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Whether EVs or solar panels, protectionism has the same distorting effect

    John Edwards
    Biden is playing election politics with tariffs on China’s electric cars, while Albanese’s solar subsidy plans might end up costing Australia.
  • 17 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia

    China’s panda diplomacy is cute politics but with fuzzy results

    Czeslaw Tubilewicz
    While popular with the public, there is little evidence that these “envoys of friendship” will reshape Australia’s ties with China.
  • 13 Dec 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia

    Two steps up in Australia’s Southeast Asia engagement

    Grace Stanhope
    The detail is starting to emerge for the government’s big ticket spending initiatives in the region.
  • 12 Dec 2024
    • Japan
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    The trouble with Australia’s best friends in Asia

    Kieran Thompson
    Political turmoil in Japan and South Korea cannot be insulated from relations with the region.
  • 11 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Nauru
    • Tuvalu

    Australia’s new chequebook diplomacy in the Pacific

    Daniel Flitton
    The potential for a bidding war should be acknowledged.
  • 11 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Nauru

    An ounce of prevention: Nauru deal puts defence spending in a different light

    Sam Roggeveen
    Australia’s Nauru deal is a victory for preventive diplomacy, closing off any possibility of a Chinese security presence.
  • 10 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands
    • Nauru

    New treaty ties Nauru to Australia via banks, security and telecommunications

    Jessica Collins
    But the “permanent state of contest” in the Pacific appears set to continue.
  • 10 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Technology
    • United States

    China’s EV manufacturing and Australia’s connected vehicles conundrum

    Henry Storey
    Canberra faces complicated trade-offs between competing domestic and foreign policy objectives.
  • 9 Dec 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Diplomacy
    • Climate change

    Australia is out to lunch on disaster diplomacy

    Fleur Johns
    Despite multiple strategies, frameworks and partnerships, Canberra still lags on regional disaster relief.
  • 4 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Transnational Challenges
    • Pacific Islands

    “Narco-subs” in the Pacific demonstrates need for effective maritime security cooperation

    Henrietta McNeill , Genevieve Quirk
    Criminals are always looking for an edge. Listening to what the Pacific needs and coordinating maritime security responses will help blunt the threat.
  • 4 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia’s chance to align global efforts against “hostage diplomacy”

    Sean Turnell
    A new senate report has set out sensible recommendations for a fresh approach on wrongful detention of Australians overseas.
  • 2 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy

    Australian industrial policy more liberal and less distortionary than most

    Robert Walker
    Australia followed the crowd as a new wave of industrial policies swept the globe. Six months on, it is useful to hold the government to account.
  • 29 Nov 2024
    • Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • Malaysia
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    As traditional “Anglo” international education destinations falter, Asia-Pacific countries look closer to home

    Angela Lehmann
    Chinese students are largely driving the surge in international students choosing universities across the region.
  • 26 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration

    How Australia risks losing global talent

    Intifar Chowdhury
    High costs and closed doors means Australia could lose its value as a destination of choice.
  • 22 Nov 2024
    • India
    • Australia

    This summer, could Australia vs India take cricket’s greatest rivalry out of the Anglosphere?

    Aarti Betigeri
    Talk of cricket diplomacy often prompts a collective eyeroll. Only, it cuts through.
  • 21 Nov 2024
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Space exploration

    Working together in space can enhance worldly ties between Australia and Japan

    Andre Kwok , Cassandra Steer
    And the region stands to benefit, too.
  • 20 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • United States

    She won’t be right: Trump’s return and Australia’s red lines

    Ben Scott
    The lessons from his first term hold limited relevance for what is on the way.
  • 18 Nov 2024
    • India
    • Australia

    Why India’s festive season could hold the key to soft power gains

    Aarti Betigeri
    Governments the world over are harnessing the positivity of the Indian festival of lights.
  • 14 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: It’s populists vs plutocrats in Trump Take 2

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s hopes of a modest economic impact from the Trump administration’s actions will require navigating the financial tensions at its heart.
  • 14 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change

    Who holds a hose? Climate change as a national security risk in Australian federalism

    Danielle Ireland-Piper
    The lines on a map might not be the sole legal determinant for an effective response to disasters and the consequences of climate change.
  • 11 Nov 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Australia

    The cost of Albanese skipping Prabowo’s inauguration

    Susannah Patton
    Bilateral ties won’t be adversely affected, but errors like this change the way Australia is seen in the region.
  • 8 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change

    Climate calamity: The fine line between fact and fiction

    Tom Barber
    A post-apocalyptic Australia, ravaged by unliveable temperatures, isn’t that far-fetched.
  • 7 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • United States

    Penny Wong is quizzed about Trump, again, again and again

    Daniel Flitton
    And her main message was to be confident about Australia.
  • 6 Nov 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • BRICS

    New players on the bloc: Is BRICS+ a critical challenge?

    Marina Yue Zhang
    A growing roster of countries lined up in the grouping carries implications for Australia’s minerals policy.
  • 31 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    This is what elections look like in 2024: Is Australia ready?

    Meg Tapia
    “Deepfakes”, “weaponisation” and “covert campaigns” are surely not the terms that should be most associated with democracy.
  • 30 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Costs vs benefits in Pat Conroy's new missile age

    Sam Roggeveen
    Missiles are expensive, and the further they need to travel, the dearer they get. That should be good news for Australia.
  • 30 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Pooled funds give Australia’s new humanitarian strategy a boost

    Grace Stanhope
    Flexibility is essential when responding to a crisis – especially those far from home.
  • 24 Oct 2024
    • Asia
    • Australia

    Australia: Migration no easy fix for Asia literacy

    Leigh Howard
    The business community – not just those exporting or operating within the region – needs to keep pace with the scale of change.
  • 23 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme is helping some workers but harming others – it needs to be reformed

    Matt Withers
    Lopsided economic benefits are intimately linked to prevailing conditions of employment.
  • 22 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Cyber Security
    • Technology

    Understanding technology as an ecosystem is the first step to tackling online harms

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    Misinformation and disinformation are not challenges in isolation.
  • 21 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG’s NRL bid: Making the most of the high-stakes game

    Oliver Nobetau
    Accountability is not just a question for donors but for the recipient country, too.
  • 18 Oct 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Australia

    How Australia’s foreign student cap could erode its regional influence: An Indonesian view

    Hangga Fathana
    Indonesians educated in Australian universities include senior ministers and officials. Goodwill has its own value.
  • 18 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Pacific Islands

    Can Australia’s new Humanitarian Policy deliver?

    Meg Keen
    The effort is laudable, and a step in the right direction, with more ambition and local engagement needed.
  • 16 Oct 2024
    • Cambodia
    • Australia

    Caught between giants: Why Cambodia looks to Australia

    Chhay Lim , Genevieve Donnellon-May
    With Phnom Penh aiming to diversify its strategic options, Canberra seems like a good bet.
  • 15 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Papua New Guinea

    Three unanswered questions for Australia’s PNG Rugby League dream

    Hugh Piper
    Could Australian diplomacy enter novel terrain: professional sports administration?
  • 14 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Amid a global aged care labour shortage, how will Australia address the challenge?

    Sophia Kagan
    International experience holds compelling lessons and points to important risks.
  • 14 Oct 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    How Australia can get better results in Papua New Guinea

    Peter O’Neill
    A former prime minister offers a frank appraisal of the neighbourly relationship.
  • 9 Oct 2024
    • Australia

    Peter Varghese on “constraining” China

    Daniel Flitton
    The former DFAT secretary captures a tension that bedevils Australian policy makers.
  • 8 Oct 2024
    • Australia
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe

    Does Finland’s "total defence" doctrine hold lessons for Australia?

    Grant Wyeth
    Liberal democracy doesn’t defend itself. The Finns know a thing or two about protecting it.
  • 27 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Emerging Threats
    • Coronavirus
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Is the world ready for its next big health crisis?

    Rebecca Wakerman Powell
    Antimicrobial resistance will test global responses to health security, just as Covid-19 did.
  • 27 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change

    The logic of first mover disadvantage: Why Australia won’t save the planet

    Mark Beeson
    Acting on climate change will inescapably involve sacrifices for the collective good.
  • 26 Sep 2024
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Quad
    • United States

    The Quad has solid foundations

    Kieran Thompson
    Questions of the group’s future after the leaders’ summit are misguided.
  • 26 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Africa

    Australia needs to take Africa seriously – really, this time

    Matthew Neuhaus
    Substantive engagement with the world’s next powerhouse region won’t carry big cost but will earn major returns.
  • 25 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Digital Disruption
    • Technology

    Byte-sized diplomacy: On social media for young people, Australia needs to aim higher

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    We have an opportunity to develop a social media approach for young people that is worthy of global export.
  • 24 Sep 2024
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia

    Timor-Leste joins the Asia Power Index

    Jack Sato , Susannah Patton
    Despite its small size, the Southeast Asian nation should not be underestimated.
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