7 Apr 2020
A French perspective on Australia’s role in the Indian Ocean
Looking towards a post–Covid-19 world, France views Australia as a key strategic partner in the region.
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2 Apr 2020
Covid-19 is not only a health crisis, it’s a migration crisis
Temporary migration is integral to Australia’s economic success story. And many of those migrants are now at risk. -
19 Mar 2020
Are you ready for how the coronavirus is transforming the world?
China is likely to emerge from this crisis far stronger economically, and Australia must look beyond “selling stuff”. -
19 Mar 2020
The future ain’t what it used to be
If Covid-19 teaches us anything, obviously we need to plan, but let’s not pretend the future is actually predictable. -
16 Mar 2020
Australia-Philippines: Prolonged partners
Manila’s termination of defence ties with Washington will have a geopolitical cost, but Canberra has history on side. -
9 Mar 2020
Australia’s intelligence community needs another independent review
None of the assessments done to date have looked at why women remain under-represented in senior roles. -
9 Mar 2020
Playing to strengths: The best use of Australian aid in the Pacific
Big spending on infrastructure catches headlines but replicates the work of others and may not be what the region needs. -
4 Mar 2020
Modern slavery reports, year one: What can we expect?
New legislation requires companies to assess labour conditions in their supply chains. It’s a good idea, but not enough. -
3 Mar 2020
Australia should speak out on India’s democratic crisis
The drive for good relations with New Delhi cannot be allowed to blind Canberra to the importance of protecting rights. -
28 Feb 2020
Car manufacturing and Australia: Nothing ventured, nothing gained
What might have been, had Australia had a crack at becoming a strategic hub for niche “world cars”. -
26 Feb 2020
Australia has an IEA problem, not a fuel security problem
Perhaps it is time for Australia look to the Asia-Pacific for a more appropriate energy cooperation agreement. -
21 Feb 2020
Australia and Israel should be partners in Asia
In a changing strategic landscape, likeminded countries have the chance to identify and grasp new opportunities. -
19 Feb 2020
Australia can’t continue to divide the Indian Ocean in two
We’re approaching an Indo-Pacific strategy with a glass half-full – best to fill it up entirely. -
18 Feb 2020
Jokowi’s speech to the Australian parliament: an ode to friendship
Much more than only trade and investment, the Indonesian President has grander ambitions for the two neighbours. -
18 Feb 2020
The politics of fire, from the Amazon to the bush
Brazil and Australia have treated recent continental infernos in some remarkably similar ways. -
13 Feb 2020
Economic diplomacy: Indonesian trade deals and real deals
“Boats, beef, and Bali” seem bad words no more, and Jokowi and Morrison set out to strike a new tone. -
13 Feb 2020
Fires to floods: My place in Australia’s summer of disaster
It seems a sin to want this rain to stop, when just a few weeks ago we were praying for this very thing. -
13 Feb 2020
China, Australia, and the gulf between leaders and led
The biggest shift in Australia’s strategic circumstances in a century will test our politics as much as our US alliance. -
11 Feb 2020
Australia-Indonesia: Building trust
After lurching from crisis to crisis, the two countries can forge a shared interest in keeping a steady relationship. -
11 Feb 2020
Jokowi’s Canberra trip: A step ahead on a long road
The Indonesian president’s visit demonstrated the two countries’ progress together, as well as gaps that remain. -
10 Feb 2020
Next steps in Australia’s coronavirus strategy
A travel ban stopped the spread of the virus but such a policy is not sustainable. Here is what more can be can done. -
7 Feb 2020
Australia-Indonesia: An uncertain world makes for firm friends
Both countries have more and more in common, a fact which should challenge old tropes about difference. -
6 Feb 2020
Australian politics: Trouble at the top, again
Scott Morrison, after a torrid summer, now has to contend with big hat brashness inside his junior coalition partner. -
3 Feb 2020
Where Latin America can learn from Australia in dealing with China
Rising Chinese influence has put South American capitals in a bind. Australia might provide them some useful lessons. -
31 Jan 2020
A new ambassador in Washington
A diplomatic changing of the guard means Australia has a chance to have a different conversation. -
29 Jan 2020
Scott Morrison wasn’t at the Raisina Dialogue, but his ideas were
The political centre-right is seeking to redefine what “internationalism” means with an emphasis on sovereignty. -
28 Jan 2020
The US is elbowing Australia and allies in a race for the China market
Australia needs to be very wary of how Donald Trump’s “unbelievable deal” will play out. -
28 Jan 2020
Q&A: Jason Rezaian on Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s nightmare in Iran
The American journalist – also once a prisoner in Tehran – wants Australia to push to end Iran’s state hostage-taking. -
16 Jan 2020
Economic diplomacy: Two big-C issues
China and climate change are new realities both putting Australia to the test. -
14 Jan 2020
The Australian lag in tech policy
As European regulators catch up with the digital economy, their Aussie counterparts seem nothing but laid-back. -
9 Jan 2020
Climate leadership: An idea whose time has come?
The Canberra Bubble seems to stifle good ideas, so the challenge for citizens make our leaders take security seriously. -
8 Jan 2020
India-Australia strategic convergence … with differences
Both countries need to psychologically prepare for a “new” world of rising powers and those in relative decline. -
20 Dec 2019
Little to gain from linking Australia’s aid with China in the Pacific
Canberra is the biggest donor in the neighbourhood and has regional goals very different from Beijing. -
19 Dec 2019
Economic diplomacy: Indian trade, taming BRI, and diaspora business
Ahead of the PM’s visit to India next month, the economic strategies of Australia and India haven’t quite yet aligned. -
17 Dec 2019
India and Australia, newfound friends?
Australia has been trying to get India’s attention for some time – and it seems it has finally managed to crack through. -
17 Dec 2019
Favourites of 2019: Ross Garnaut on climate
Escaping the gloomy view, a positive look at the opportunities for renewable power might just match the public mood. -
13 Dec 2019
Pacifying Australia-China relations
Cooperation in the Pacific Islands would be valuable precisely because it is difficult. -
13 Dec 2019
In Australia’s China “debate”, there is no monopoly on morality
It would be tragic if anger at China’s sins prompted Australia to adopt policies making even greater misery more likely. -
12 Dec 2019
Strength in numbers in the eastern Indian Ocean
India has compelling reasons to expand its presence in east waters – and Australia has broader reasons to help. -
10 Dec 2019
Share, like, comment, attack: Social media as weapon and battlefield
Parliament will examine threat of foreign actors using social media to cajole, harass, hoodwink, and exploit the public. -
9 Dec 2019
India and Australia: Reciprocity, mutuality, and promise
A former senior diplomat is crafting an economic strategy for India to deal with Australia – a first for India. -
6 Dec 2019
We’ve already had Our Very Own Brexit
Instead of munching popcorn at the political theatre, citizens’ assemblies would give the community a chance to reflect. -
5 Dec 2019
Diego Garcia: The costs of defending an Indian Ocean outpost
Australian support for Britain’s contentious Chagos sovereignty claim risks delegitimising its South China Sea policy. -
3 Dec 2019
The Wang Liqiang case in Cold War perspective
We should encourage defectors from Chinese intelligence services, even if the bona fides in this case are not yet clear. -
3 Dec 2019
Hollowed out, but not unhinged
The scenario put forth in Sam Roggeveen’s “Our very own Brexit” runs counter to the major parties’ economic realities. -
2 Dec 2019
Reconsidering Australia’s China debate
A simplistic “pro-China”–“anti-China” division ignores complex questions and shuts down the conversation. -
2 Dec 2019
Cultural heritage key to regional development in PNG and Australia
Exchanging ideas about successes on either side of the Coral Sea can lead the way to connecting people and institutions. -
29 Nov 2019
Taking the Confucius Institutes at face value
Properly examining the evidence will allow Australia to assess more credible threats of China’s foreign influence. -
29 Nov 2019
Time with Trump: Australia and Southeast Asia compared
Although the US president has yet to set foot in Australia, Australian leaders have got Trump’s attention. -
28 Nov 2019
Behrouz Boochani: Still in limbo
The Kurdish-Iranian journalist left Manus Island after six years, but the bureaucratic hurdles still lie before him.