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Joanna Pradela , Alice Ridge 31 minutes ago As US retreats, Australia advances on gender equality The new International Gender Equality Strategy is an important marker – will much work to be done.
David Morris 7 hours ago The old theories don’t fit the new world order A workable and sustainable internationalism will need to grapple with questions of diversity and multipolarity.
Michael Wesley 20 hours ago The global contest for the Pacific Geopolitical fears of growing Chinese influence in Oceania are not the only interest Australia has in the region.
Nikola Mikovic 23 hours ago The West’s stabiliser, Russia’s friend, China’s partner – but Serbia’s patience with its leader wears thin President Aleksandar Vucic, the man who successfully played all sides, is losing at home.
Jenny Gordon 23 hours ago Is Australia in the tariff firing line? Trump’s plans are less about economics and more about coercion.
Neeraj Singh Manhas 1 day ago China’s Medog county mega-dam is bad news for India and Bangladesh The downstream implications of a water conflict underscore the need for better regional cooperation.
Richard Javad Heydarian 1 day ago Trump’s grand bargain? The Philippines caught between US and China Manila is increasingly aware that a defence dilemma could be exposed by the president’s transactional foreign policy.
Sam Roggeveen 1 day ago Why, for Australia, Trump’s treatment of Canada is so troubling The US alliance is far shallower and more transactional than its Australian supporters like to believe.
Ian Kemish 1 day ago Sir Julius Chan: PNG’s “last man standing” Reflecting on a political life championing local development and courting international controversy.