Friday 22 Feb 2019 | 18:45 | SYDNEY

Friday 22 Feb 2019 | 18:45 | SYDNEY

Debates

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Favourites of 2017

Debate Thread

1. Favourites of 2017: The Exile

By Lydia Khalil

2. Favourites of 2017: The chocolate factory

By Matthew Busch

3. Favourites of 2017: American War

By Nick Bisley

4. Favourites of 2017: The Handmaid’s Tale

By Bec Strating

5. Favourites of 2017: Age of Anger

By Marcus Colla

6. Favourites of 2017: Behind the Rise

By Michael Fullilove

7. Favourites of 2017: Trump's America

By Malcolm Cook

8. Favourites of 2017: the Vietnam War

By Stephen Grenville

9. Favourites of 2017: the blogosphere

By Sam Roggeveen

10. Favorites of 2017: Pachinko

By Greg Earl

11. Favourites of 2017: International Crisis Group on Myanmar

By Elliot Brennan

12. Favourites of 2017: PNG speaks

By Jonathan Pryke

13. Favourites of 2017: East West Street

By Alex Oliver

14. Favourites of 2017: My doomed colleagues

By Daniel Flitton

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Foreign Policy White Paper 2017: Reactions

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1. Foreign Policy White Paper: Australia faces an uncertain world

By Daniel Flitton

2. Foreign Policy White Paper: Turnbull addresses the China problem

By Sam Roggeveen

3. Time for Australia to forge free compact agreements in the Pacific

By Greg Colton

4. The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program

By Annmaree O’Keeffe

5. What the White Paper misses on China

By Merriden Varrall

6. Keep Calm and Step Up: The White Paper's message on the Pacific

By James Batley

7. Foreign Policy White Paper sees a new Asia but pleads for the old

By James Curran

8. Haircuts, taxis and Big Macs: Comparing economies using purchasing power parity

By Stephen Grenville

9. Foreign Policy White Paper: the UN on the periphery

By Sally Weston

10. Does the White Paper underestimate the pace of economic change?

By Roland Rajah

11. Understanding a rules-based White Paper

By Ric Smith

12. An opportunity missed for a feminist foreign policy

By Sarah Boyd

13. Dodging the hard questions in the Pacific

By Nic Maclellan

14. No zero-sum game in greater Pacific ties

By Greg Colton

15. Economic diplomacy brief: The business end of the Foreign Policy White Paper

By Greg Earl

16. How the region reported the Foreign Policy White Paper

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Coral Bell’s ‘The End of the Vasco da Gama Era’: A 10th Anniversary Retrospective

Debate Thread

1. The prescience of Coral Bell

By Brendan Taylor

2. Coral Bell and the 'concert of powers' problem

By Ian Hall

3. Coral Bell's new norms for a new world

By Sheryn Lee

4. How accurate were Coral Bell's predictions?

By Sam Roggeveen

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