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Debate Topic
Do embassies still matter?
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Indonesia: Diplomacy as nation building
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His Excellency is dead, long live the ambassador
Daniel Woker
3
A diplomatic necessity: Why embassies persist in the digital age
Kishan Rana
4
Embassy work in North Korea: Achieving a lot with a small team and not many telephone calls
David Slinn
5
Seeing Britain as a foreign country: The story of Australia House, London
James Curran
6
A few reflections on embassies
John McCarthy
7
That time in the '80s when the Foreign Minister came to Belgrade
Lucinda Holdforth
8
When the diplomatic tap was turned off
Denise Fisher
9
Australia's biggest embassy
Catriona Croft-Cusworth
10
DFAT, come home! Why foreign posts no longer make sense
Jason Murphy
11
Embassies can shape policy
Ric Smith
Debate Topic
The 2016 Defence White Paper
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After 40 years, Five-Eyes is out in the open
2
Australia's new Defence White Paper acknowledges France as a strategic partner
Denise Fisher
3
Keeping it real in Australia's outlook on Indonesia
Natalie Sambhi
4
How will we pay for this big-spending Defence White Paper?
Nick Bisley
5
It's time we talked about war with China
Hugh White
6
Digital diplomacy links (defence special): White Paper, Army blogging, honeytraps and more
Danielle Cave
7
Chinese media responds to the Defence White Paper
Jackson Kwok
8
Australia's unbalanced foreign policy
Julia Newton-Howes
9
Anti-submarine warfare biggest winner in Defence White Paper
Brendan Thomas-Noone
10
Defence White Paper 2016: Eight strategic observations
Crispin Rovere
11
Defence White Paper fails on climate change
Nic Maclellan
12
Setting a high bar down under: An American perspective on Australia's White Paper
13
Show us the money: Big gap between defence spending rhetoric and reality
14
Podcast: The Defence White Paper dissected
Michael Fullilove
Debate Topic
The Embarrassed Colonialist
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Australia-PNG relations: Decades of missed opportunities
Ted Wolfers
2
Preaching to the converted
Sean Dorney
3
PNG: Australia's foreign policy priorities should be closer to home
Allan Bird
4
An embarrassed Australia meets a bolder Papua New Guinea
Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
5
The Embarrassed Colonialist: Our migration problem
Jonathan Pryke
6
Plenty of great stories still to be mined in Papua New Guinea
Max Uechtritz
7
PNG is changing and we need to keep up
Ian Kemish
8
Australia in Papua New Guinea: The Embarrassed Colonialist
Jenny Hayward-Jones