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  • 24 Sep 2025
    • International law
    • Space exploration
    • Technology

    The real battle for the Moon’s resources is here on Earth

    Nimra Javed
    Pre-market contracts could decide lunar governance before mining starts and usher in a new age of “resource colonialism”.
  • 24 Sep 2025
    • Climate change

    History’s warning: Climate chaos can expose the fragility of world order

    Terrence Mullan
    Past empires fell when environmental stress met political weakness – today’s global warming poses an unprecedented test of resilience.
  • 23 Sep 2025
    • Bangladesh
    • Nepal
    • Sri Lanka

    The outside-in story that helps explain turmoil in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

    Nilanthi Samaranayake
    External dynamics help explain the recent political upheaval seen across several smaller South Asian countries.
  • 23 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Home on the Range: The Australian Army prepares for the future

    Mick Ryan
    The 2024 National Defence Strategy provided clarity of purpose for an Army in the midst of rapid change.
  • 23 Sep 2025
    • Defence & Security
    • Space exploration

    Dogfighting between satellites? Recognising space as a domain of war

    Philip Citowicki
    Why Australia will likely follow Washington’s lead on military space doctrine.
  • 23 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Technology

    Which way for ASEAN’s AI governance approach?

    Faiza Saleem
    Three possible futures as other emerging regions watch on.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Pakistan

    The handshake that wasn’t: Cricket a casualty of India-Pakistan tensions

    Saqlain Rizve
    The sad story of how the sporting ground can transform from peacemaker to political battlefield.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • China
    • Defence & Security

    China’s Victory Day parade: A tale of two audiences

    Sophie Wushuang Yi
    Beijing’s military showcase revealed the challenge of projecting strength abroad while maintaining confidence at home.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Australia

    Complacent nation: Australia and the Asian Century

    Tim Watts
    Decades of ambition have left us with a nation still unable to speak the language of our neighbours.
  • 22 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Sustainability

    Indonesia’s biodiesel push

    Akhmad Hanan
    With an economic reliance on palm oil fuels, Jakarta must balance energy security and global trade.
  • 19 Sep 2025
    • United Nations

    The UN at 80: Broke, blocked and still indispensable

    Izabela Pereira Watts
    Despite structural flaws and funding shortfalls, multilateral cooperation offers the only path through turmoil.
  • 19 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • United States

    The Trump–Albanese meeting: Good news – he’s just not that into us

    Michael Shoebridge
    When it comes to Australia, Trump’s focus is elsewhere, and that’s not all bad.
  • 19 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    The psychology behind climate policy paralysis

    Isabella Henderson
    Our brains are wired to ignore the climate issue so policy must speak to the gut.
  • 19 Sep 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Issues
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Global health at risk: Why Australia’s leadership matters

    Jennifer Tierney
    Washington’s aid freeze threatens decades of progress against infectious diseases across Australia’s neighbourhood.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change

    Climate disasters aren’t natural – and calling them that makes things worse

    Junli Lim
    Our language puts a mask on human responsibility. This is one change that could make for a better environment.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • China
    • India
    • Nepal

    Nepal’s generational revolt catches China and India in the middle

    Saima Afzal
    Political upheaval in Kathmandu tests the limits of great power influence in South Asia.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • China
    • Energy
    • Technology
    • United States

    US-China rare earth talks: Trading predictability for time

    Apoorba Banerjee
    Transparency in rare earth licensing could tame market volatility.
  • 18 Sep 2025
    • Singapore
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Climate change
    • Diplomacy
    • Sustainability

    The ambitious SunCable project hinges on good neighbours and secure seas

    Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
    An Australia–Asia green energy transmission link will test sovereignty, diplomatic leverage, and maritime security.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Global Issues

    India’s diaspora in far-right crosshairs

    Abhijnan Rej
    Indian-origin immigrants are bearing the brunt of MAGA-fication globally.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea

    I spent five days observing a joint military exercise between Australia and the Philippines. Here’s what I learned.

    Danielle Ireland-Piper
    Joint training brings depth to an important bilateral relationship and allows troops to rehearse for what may lie ahead.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Australia-PNG: When mutual defence becomes mutual embarrassment

    Mihai Sora
    It was always going to be a hurdle for PNG to change its non-aligned foreign policy.
  • 17 Sep 2025
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands

    Is the Green Climate Fund starting to deliver for the Pacific?

    Georgia Hammersley
    Early signs of progress are emerging, but a drive for scale risks sidelining the region.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • United Nations

    A bingo card guide for Anthony Albanese’s speech to the United Nations

    Daniel Flitton
    Australia’s recent national statements reveal the familiar script the PM will likely follow in his first address to the global body.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Indonesia
    • Nepal
    • Philippines

    Chronicles of corruption

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The public outcry against systemic corruption in Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines exposes government greed and elite excess amid widespread poverty.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Nauru
    • Samoa
    • Tonga
    • Tuvalu

    Reality bites: Why the global dengue epidemic matters to Australia

    Philippa Nicole Barr
    The mosquito-borne disease is more than a health emergency – it symbolises the injustice of climate change.
  • 16 Sep 2025
    • Defence & Security

    A 3.5% of GDP defence budget: Why, how, and what

    Mick Ryan
    NATO's new benchmark is a good one for Australia to adopt. But what should the additional money be spent on?
  • 15 Sep 2025
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • AUKUS
    • United States

    Albanese’s narrow path to keeping Trump happy on AUKUS

    Michael Shoebridge
    Flashy weapons deals could distract from awkward questions about Australia’s overall military spending.
  • 15 Sep 2025
    • United Nations
    • United States

    The big picture benefits of a UN headquarters in New York

    Stéphanie Fillion
    If the United States continues to diminish its role in the global institution, others are all too ready to fill the void.
  • 15 Sep 2025
    • Defence & Security

    A rescue guide in the search for a US Indo-Pacific strategy

    Henry Yep
    Field experience in wilderness rescue reveals crucial lessons about leadership, patience and adaptability under pressure.
  • 15 Sep 2025
    • Poverty
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Africa

    Ethiopia’s grand projects fail the human capital test

    Kurniawan Arif Maspul
    Despite immense infrastructure success, a neglected education sector risks turning concrete wealth into a hollow monument.
  • 12 Sep 2025
    • The Americas

    Conflict creeps into Caribbean calm

    Gabriela Bernal
    Small European territories fear the cost of proximity as tensions boil between Washington and Caracas.
  • 12 Sep 2025
    • Pakistan
    • Energy
    • United States

    The resource potential in Pakistan that Trump hopes to tap into

    Shamsa Ishfaq
    For a relationship historically dominated by security concerns, energy and mineral reserves could give Islamabad’s ties with Washington a stronger foundation.
  • 12 Sep 2025
    • Global Economy

    Stablecoins for remittances? A solution in search of a problem

    Stephen Grenville
    Despite the value proposition of stablecoins, the ability to convert into useable currency remains the biggest hurdle.
  • 12 Sep 2025
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Diplomacy

    Taiwan's diplomacy doesn't have to come from the government

    Julien Oeuillet
    City-to-city agreements are creating small but powerful connections for Taiwan in ways its national officials cannot.
  • 11 Sep 2025
    • India

    India-US relations demonstrate fickle foreign policies but sticky relations

    Chietigj Bajpaee
    New Delhi’s efforts to maintain equidistance from all powers increasingly faces pressure to choose a side.
  • 11 Sep 2025
    • North Korea
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Are there actually North Korean troops inside Ukraine?

    Khang Vu
    With no reliable evidence of North Korean soldiers beyond Kursk, the reality isn’t matching the media hype.
  • 11 Sep 2025
    • China
    • Myanmar
    • Technology
    • United States

    Northern Myanmar: The latest stop in Trump’s rare earths escapade

    Henry Storey
    The likelihood of Chinese buy-in on US–Myanmar mining deals is remote.
  • 11 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • Defence & Security
    • Europe

    How uncertainty about US strategy complicates Europe’s approach to the Indo-Pacific

    Gesine Weber
    Washington’s posture could challenge European interests and planning.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    America’s “Department of War” puts Asia’s peace at risk

    Akhmad Hanan
    The US military rebrand exposes uncomfortable truths about American power that could reshape regional relationships.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • India
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Canberra needs fewer partners, better focus – and a team-up with Seoul and Delhi offers just that

    Grace Corcoran
    An Australia-India-South Korea triangle makes sense in an era of uncertainty about the United States.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • Brunei
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Vietnam
    • Maritime Security
    • South China Sea
    • Technology

    The South China Sea’s next legal frontier: Ships without sailors

    Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
    Unmanned warships blur legal boundaries as technology outpaces international law in contested maritime zones.
  • 10 Sep 2025
    • India
    • Technology

    India’s digital arrest scams

    Abhijnan Rej
    Cultural predispositions and the brain’s cognitive biases are being weaponised by cybercriminals to devastating effect.
  • 9 Sep 2025
    • Japan
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • United States

    Peacemaker, Pacemaker, Playmaker: The three-way formula for engaging North Korea

    Jiwon Kim
    A coordinated US-South Korea-Japan approach could succeed where previous bilateral efforts with Pyongyang have failed.
  • 9 Sep 2025
    • China
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • Public Opinion
    • United States

    Why Australians are realists on China

    Helen Zhang
    Tech rivalry is a telling case study where pragmatic engagement with both superpowers is preferred despite mounting pressure to choose sides.
  • 9 Sep 2025
    • Asean
    • Cambodia
    • Thailand

    Five days of fire: Lessons from the Cambodia–Thailand border crisis

    In Sokhuon
    Divergent strategies on border disputes could be solved with an ASEAN solution. But is there the political will?
  • 9 Sep 2025
    • Asia
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Diplomacy

    The messy truth: Australia’s reputation in Southeast Asia

    Lindsay R. Dodd
    When it comes to soft power, a little more humility and a lot less swagger would work in Canberra’s favour.
  • 8 Sep 2025
    • China
    • North Korea
    • Russia

    The China-Russia-North Korea alliance that needs no name

    Seong-Hyon Lee
    The West should not be blinded by what is plain to see.
  • 8 Sep 2025
    • Thailand

    Who is Thailand’s new Prime Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul?

    Susannah Patton
    The installation of a “middleman” prime minister is a warning sign for Thailand’s political stability.
  • 8 Sep 2025
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Energy

    Ukraine’s oil war threatens to leave Russia running on empty

    David Kirichenko
    Drone attacks on energy infrastructure expose Moscow’s vulnerabilities while raising costs of continued war.
  • 8 Sep 2025
    • Pacific Islands

    The Pacific’s diplomatic retreat from great power competition

    Hansley Gumbaketi
    Regional leaders are excluding outside powers as they seek consensus on a way to safeguard both unity and diversity.
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