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Favourites of 2020
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Favourites of 2020: Women make excellent spies

Daniel Flitton

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Favourites of 2020: Running for nothing?

Louise Terrance

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Favourites of 2020: Love on the Spectrum

Erin Bassett

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Favourites of 2020: Evil Geniuses

Sam Hendricks

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Favourites of 2020: The moral ambiguity of spying

Erin Hurley

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Favourites of 2020: Homeland Elegies

Lydia Khalil

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Favourites of 2020: Capturing a precarious moment

Aarti Betigeri

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Favourites of 2020: A lockdown loaf

Jennifer Hsu

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Favourites of 2020: Casting a line in Pacific fisheries

Jonathan Pryke

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Favourites of 2020: Minister of Finance Incorporated

Alyssa Leng

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Favourites of 2020: The politics of Tiger King

Bec Strating

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Favourites of 2020: Memes

Madeleine Nyst
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Man of Contradictions
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Indonesia – a country of disappointments

John West

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The (un)making of Joko Widodo

Nava Nuraniyah
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Out of lockdown: Searching for a new normal
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Vaccine nationalism: Rich nations must also care for the poor

Andrea Chloe Wong

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Can vaccines offer an exit plan from Covid-19?

Raina MacIntyre

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Using the Australian Open as a Tokyo test run

André Leslie

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What does the arrival of Covid vaccines mean for 2021?

Dominic Meagher

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Covering the Covid shock on The Interpreter in 2020

The Interpreter

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The strange connections of isolation

Melissa Conley Tyler

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Learning from an island in a pandemic

Grant Wyeth

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Favourites of 2020: A lockdown loaf

Jennifer Hsu

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Diplomacy after Covid: No looking back

Jeffrey Robertson

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Building a Covid vaccine strategy for Australia

Danielle Fitzpatrick

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Pandemic democracy

Benjamin Reilly

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Australia needs the workers, the Pacific needs the jobs

Grant Wyeth

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Diplomacy and global governance after Covid‑19: Prepare for change

Jeffrey Robertson

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Europe, united in recovery – for now

Alexandre Dayant

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Economic diplomacy: Covid recovery, from Singapore to the EU

Greg Earl

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Economic diplomacy: Diversification dilemmas

Greg Earl

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Economic diplomacy: Positive globalism and American exceptionalism

Greg Earl

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Climate change makes Covid-19 politics look easy

Matt McDonald

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India-Australia strategic partnership: Leveraging aerospace capacity

M Matheswaran

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Designing a “built environment” for the pandemic age

Daniel Flitton

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In an Olympic-sized challenge, Japan’s golden chance could go begging

André Leslie

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Covid contest in Indian Ocean region: India, China jostle for top spot

David Brewster

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Muddled messages as Britain seeks to stay alert

Lawrence Freedman