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COP30: A climate for change?
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Why COP30 may disappoint – again

Melanie Pill , Georgia Hammersley

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A new model for forest finance or just more debt?

Jawad Khalid

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The COP30 and COP31 summits must be a display of southern hemisphere stewardship

Izabela Pereira Watts

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Pacific Islands: Without literacy, climate resilience is nigh on impossible

Serena Sasingian

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COP30 and COP31 will test middle powers in a climate of opportunity

Martin Geissdoerfer , Trang Nguyen

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Crunch time for Australia and COP31

David Dutton

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Indonesia values the forests, but can it fund the trees?

Mohd. Yunus
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Where has Indonesia’s optimism gone?
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Indonesia's diplomacy: Changing with confidence

Febrian Alphyanto Ruddyard

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Prabowo’s first year: Visibility without vision in Indonesian foreign policy

Virdika Rizky Utama

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Prabowo’s policies won’t fix Indonesia’s problems

Hilman Palaon

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Indonesia’s free meal ambition: When policy becomes a recipe for risk

Ronny P Sasmita

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Indonesia’s green industrial policy ahead of COP30

Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara , Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

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Indonesia’s SupTech experiment offers lessons for emerging markets

Hanif Santoso

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Indonesia’s biodiesel push

Akhmad Hanan

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Prabowo’s Indonesia draws opposition via cartoon pirates

Erin Cook
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The AUKUS stress test: Alliance pressures and Australia's strategic choices
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Australia and the United Kingdom put the AUKUS spin cycle on High

Michael Shoebridge

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AUKUS will be worth the work. China’s alarm shows why Trump should get onboard

Frank A. Rose

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An AUKUS ultimatum for Australia over Taiwan risks backfiring on Washington

Andrew O'Neil

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AUKUS: Building confidence in Australia’s submarine pathway

Jennifer Parker

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Allied burden-sharing must reshape Australia’s defence priorities

Arthur Sinodinos

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Why Albanese is echoing Curtin’s call to America

John Edwards

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Clock ticks towards Pentagon AUKUS review deadline

Sam Roggeveen

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Meeting Xi before Trump? Why Albanese’s diplomatic calendar matters

Daniel Flitton

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Australia can’t prevaricate on tough economic and security trade-offs anymore

Hugh Piper

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Australia-United States: How to disagree with a superpower

Ryan Neelam

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Does Australia see China as a threat?

Susannah Patton

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Transparency and the Australia-US alliance

David Vallance

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Albanese government cuts to the heart of the US alliance

Michael Shoebridge

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Albanese must learn that smiles and handshakes with Trump won’t save Australia’s AUKUS ambitions

John Lee