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Favourites of 2017
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Favourites of 2017: My doomed colleagues

Daniel Flitton

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Favourites of 2017: East West Street

Alex Oliver

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Favourites of 2017: PNG speaks

Jonathan Pryke

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Favourites of 2017: International Crisis Group on Myanmar

Elliot Brennan

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Favorites of 2017: Pachinko

Greg Earl

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Favourites of 2017: the blogosphere

Sam Roggeveen

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Favourites of 2017: the Vietnam War

Stephen Grenville

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Favourites of 2017: Trump's America

Malcolm Cook

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Favourites of 2017: Behind the Rise

Michael Fullilove

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Favourites of 2017: Age of Anger

Marcus Colla

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Favourites of 2017: The Handmaid’s Tale

Bec Strating

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Favourites of 2017: American War

Nick Bisley

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Favourites of 2017: The chocolate factory

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Favourites of 2017: The Exile

Lydia Khalil
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Foreign Policy White Paper 2017: Reactions
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How the region reported the Foreign Policy White Paper

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

Greg Earl

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No zero-sum game in greater Pacific ties

Greg Colton

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Dodging the hard questions in the Pacific

Nic Maclellan

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An opportunity missed for a feminist foreign policy

Sarah Boyd

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Understanding a rules-based White Paper

Ric Smith

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Does the White Paper underestimate the pace of economic change?

Roland Rajah

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Foreign Policy White Paper: the UN on the periphery

Sally Weston

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

Stephen Grenville

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

James Curran

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

James Batley

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What the White Paper misses on China

Merriden Varrall

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The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program

Annmaree O’Keeffe

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Time for Australia to forge free compact agreements in the Pacific

Greg Colton

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Foreign Policy White Paper: Turnbull addresses the China problem

Sam Roggeveen

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Foreign Policy White Paper: Australia faces an uncertain world

Daniel Flitton
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Coral Bell’s ‘The End of the Vasco da Gama Era’: A 10th Anniversary Retrospective
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How accurate were Coral Bell's predictions?

Sam Roggeveen

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Coral Bell's new norms for a new world

Sheryn Lee

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Coral Bell and the 'concert of powers' problem

Ian Hall

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The prescience of Coral Bell

Brendan Taylor