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  • 15 Oct 2015
    • Diplomacy
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    DFAT: Not perfect, but in our national interest

    Alex Oliver
  • 1 Oct 2015
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    UN Security Council bid: How Australia should sell itself

    Peter Nadin
  • 30 Sep 2015
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    Australia makes another tilt at the UN Security Council

    Alex Oliver
  • 25 Sep 2015
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    Turnbull's new cabinet is great news for the Pacific

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 17 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
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    • Australian Perspective
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    Australia-South Korea 2+2 delivers ambitious agenda

    Euan Graham
  • 16 Sep 2015
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    Australia's prime ministerial shuffle is hurting its diplomacy

    Nick Bryant
  • 16 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Syria
    • Australian Perspective
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    The silence of Australia's Imams on the Gulf States and refugees

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 14 Sep 2015
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    • Australian trade, investment & economy
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    • Nuclear energy

    Reader riposte: Australia-India nuclear deal

  • 14 Sep 2015
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    Australia's foreign policy and refugee resettlement

    Claire Higgins
  • 11 Sep 2015
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    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
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    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
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    • Nuclear energy

    Australia-India nuclear deal: Parliamentary treaties committee recommends tough conditions

    John Tilemann
  • 8 Sep 2015
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    Meet Julie Bishop's 'text buddy', Retno Marsudi

    Catriona Croft-Cusworth
  • 1 Sep 2015
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    Australia–Papua New Guinea relations: Could do better

  • 31 Aug 2015
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    Papua New Guinea: Keep calm and muddle through?

  • 31 Aug 2015
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    • Australian Perspective
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    • Arab Uprisings
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    Greste, the West and 'the republic of darkness'

    Anthony Bubalo
  • 28 Jul 2015
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    Indonesia: engagement through communication and culture has barely begun

    Catriona Croft-Cusworth
  • 27 Jul 2015
    • Global Economy
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    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Country And Regional Studies
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    Indonesia: We don't have to be condemned to crisis

    Andrew Parker
  • 27 Jul 2015
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    Indonesia: Too many 'unforced errors'

    Stephen Grenville
  • 23 Jul 2015
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    A frank and refreshing assessment of Australia-Indonesia relations

    Greta Nabbs-Keller
  • 28 May 2015
    • Diplomacy
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    A way forward for Indonesia-Australia relations

  • 21 May 2015
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    • Papua New Guinea

    Australia-PNG diplomatic spat needs swift resolution

    Jenny Hayward-Jones
  • 20 May 2015
    • Global Issues
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    Australia can play a part in ending Indonesia's abusive 'virginity tests'

    Phelim Kine
  • 13 May 2015
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    Australia's Pacific aid budget spared from serious cuts

  • 6 May 2015
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    • Migration

    The influence of geography, technology and money on refugee migration

    Marie McAuliffe
  • 1 May 2015
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    Australia's unsustainable approach to asylum-seekers

    Jane McAdam
  • 27 Apr 2015
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    What can Europe learn from Australia about stopping the boats?

    Khalid Koser
  • 24 Apr 2015
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    • Digital Disruption
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    Six ideas for rescuing Australian digital diplomacy

    Danielle Cave
  • 17 Apr 2015
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    • Digital Disruption
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    Does Australia do digital diplomacy?

    Danielle Cave
  • 13 Mar 2015
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    Australia-Laos rights dialogue: More than just rhetoric needed

    Shaivalini Parmar
  • 12 Mar 2015
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    Tough road for Asia's women activists

    Elaine Pearson
  • 12 Mar 2015
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    • Indonesia

    Indonesians against the death penalty

    Catriona Croft-Cusworth
  • 11 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Emerging Threats
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    Australia needs to start thinking globally about national security

    Peter Layton
  • 3 Mar 2015
    • Global Economy
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    Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership be a good deal for Australia?

    Stephen Grenville
  • 25 Feb 2015
    • Global Economy
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    • Terrorism
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
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    Julie Bishop goes to Tehran

    Dina Esfandiary
  • 13 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Nuclear energy

    SA's Royal Commission into nuclear energy: Let's talk about waste

    John Tilemann
  • 4 Feb 2015
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    Brisbane a 'turning point' in Merkel-Putin relationship

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
  • 3 Feb 2015
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    • Nuclear energy

    India nuclear deal needs serious parliamentary scrutiny

    John Tilemann
  • 21 Jan 2015
    • Global Issues
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    Australia must push for regional adoption of Arms Trade Treaty

    John Tilemann
  • 23 Dec 2014
    • Defence & Security
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    • Emerging Threats
    • Australian Perspective
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    Australian recognised by UN's chemical weapons watchdog

    John Tilemann
  • 16 Dec 2014
    • Global Issues
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    • Climate change

    Lima climate conference: Slow movement on Planet UNFCCC

    Fergus Green
  • 2 Dec 2014
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australian Diplomacy

    Peace on the horizon for Bangsamoro?

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 25 Nov 2014
    • Diplomacy
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    • Australia and Asia
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    East Timor, Australia and the 'Timor Gap'

    Stephen Grenville
  • 20 Nov 2014
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    • Australia and the Pacific
    • New Caledonia

    New Caledonia: Australia must show assertive impartiality

    Daryl Morini
  • 19 Nov 2014
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    Modi in Australia: An unprecedented level of engagement

    Danielle Rajendram
  • 5 Nov 2014
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    The case for Pacific Island regionalism

    Brett Mason
  • 3 Nov 2014
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    'The Embassy' and DFAT's consular role: Helping Australians travel smarter

  • 31 Oct 2014
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    Australia and the AIIB: A lost opportunity

    Philippa Brant
  • 29 Oct 2014
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    Whitlam's Indonesia leadership was far from 'visionary'

    Anthony Burke
  • 28 Oct 2014
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    Whitlam's visionary leadership on Indonesia

    Gary Hogan
  • 23 Oct 2014
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    Can Australia remain a top 20 nation?

    Melissa Conley Tyler
  • 9 Oct 2014
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    Ebola: Lessons from earlier pandemic scares

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
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