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  • 4 Oct 2022
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Diversity and inclusion: Australia’s global aim to walk the talk

    Danielle Ireland-Piper , Robin Perry
    It helps to ensure feelings of respect and value infuse diplomacy – and the management of foreign relations, too.
  • 4 Oct 2022
    • Australia
    • Islamic State
    • Migration

    Islamic State: women, justice, and a complex impasse

    Rodger Shanahan
    What charges are laid against women returned to Australia will help us better understand the role they played in Syria.
  • 3 Oct 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia

    Greater Sunrise: Can Timor-Leste play the “China card”?

    Teesta Prakash , Jack Sato
    Beijing is a minor player in development finance for Dili – but it’s a different story with state-owned enterprises.
  • 29 Sep 2022
    • Myanmar
    • Australia

    Myanmar: a desperate junta trying, and failing, to shore up its legitimacy

    Adam Simpson
    Sentencing Sean Turnell to jail won’t help the Myanmar junta’s international isolation or its domestic problems.
  • 23 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Six reasons to be cautious about Australia establishing a DFI

    Jenny Gordon
    As soon as public money is on the table, there will be a line of players looking to “clip the ticket”.
  • 16 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Five reasons Australia should establish a Development Finance Institution

    Roland Rajah
    A DFI would expand Canberra’s development toolkit and re-establish the country as a serious financing partner in Asia.
  • 14 Sep 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Terrorism

    Bali 2002: When global terrorism first came close to home

    Ian Kemish
    An extraordinary consular response followed the deadly attack – lessons of crisis that would become all too familiar.
  • 13 Sep 2022
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

    Has Southeast Asia warmed to AUKUS one year on?

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    The shock of surprise has faded and a new tone from new voices may ease some concerns. But objections remain.
  • 13 Sep 2022
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • United States

    The Quad needs a stronger economic message

    Rena Sasaki
    Trade is the path to regional prosperity, but the four partners stand divided on how this can be achieved.
  • 12 Sep 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    AUKUS, one year on

    Sam Roggeveen
    Australians deserve the details of what nuclear-powered submarines mean – for national defence and identity alike.
  • 8 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands

    Economic diplomacy: Nation building at home and abroad

    Greg Earl
    A jobs summit highlighted the challenges in crafting a foreign policy for the middle class and balanced development aid.
  • 2 Sep 2022
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Migration

    The right tools for a coherent regional response to forced migration

    Caitlin McCaffrie
    Reforming the Bali Process will provide a genuine forum for Australia and partners to prepare ahead of the next crisis.
  • 30 Aug 2022
    • Asia
    • Australia

    Why engaging Asia matters even more

    Peter Varghese
    Australians thought they understood the shape of a shared regional future but today its contours look less certain.
  • 29 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Cyber Warfare
    • Technology

    Should democracies ever lie?

    Ben Scott
    Is bending the truth sometimes necessary and justified in situations short of war?
  • 25 Aug 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Penny Wong on “30 minutes with the PM” and Australia’s global interest

    Daniel Flitton
    The Foreign Minister was asked about the new Interpreter series and her answer was an insight into balancing priorities.
  • 15 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Europe

    Norway’s 30 minutes with the PM

    Daniel Flitton
    Norway’s ambassador takes a moment in his last week in Canberra to explain what he would tell Anthony Albanese.
  • 11 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: No free lunches for national security

    Greg Earl
    New foreign investment rules, nuisance tariffs and supply chains are all under scrutiny by the Productivity Commission.
  • 9 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Diplomacy

    There must be a better way: Australia’s diplomatic appointments

    Hugh Piper
    Transparency in deciding who gets to represent the country abroad can only be a benefit.
  • 4 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    PNG’s troubled election should be a wake-up call for Australia

    Mihai Sora
    Shocking violence has captured headlines. A higher benchmark is needed in support of a free and credible ballot.
  • 1 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • United States
    • Sex and Gender

    US abortion bans unleash state-sanctioned violence against women

    Tania Penovic
    The Australian anti-abortion movement wants to learn from and replicate the campaign to overturn Roe vs Wade.
  • 1 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Africa

    If you had 30 minutes with the PM, what would you ask?

    Daniel Flitton
    To kick off a new series with foreign envoys in Canberra, I quiz Botswana’s representative about dealing with Australia.
  • 29 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

    Can we please have a real debate on nuclear submarines?

    Marianne Hanson
    It looks suspiciously as if a decision is already made, even with a promised 18-month investigation only half-way done.
  • 28 Jul 2022
    • China
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • Pacific Islands

    Economic diplomacy: The Pacific reset needs real commercial investment

    Greg Earl
    The language of geopolitics is trickling down to unexpected corners of the economy with wide-ranging long-term impact.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • China
    • Australia

    Australia-China relations: Understanding how we arrived at this point

    James Curran
    History is too often reduced to a cartoonish view, but a proper perspective is crucial to chart the next challenges.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Japan
    • India
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Issues
    • Environment
    • Coronavirus
    • Climate change
    • United States

    The Quad needs a futures focus

    Abhijnan Rej
    A better – and public – understanding is needed of the cascading effects of regional challenges.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Malaysia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Review

    Semut: Australia’s secret war against the Japanese in Borneo

    Henry Storey
    A reconstruction of incomplete archives reveals one of Australia’s most audacious independent special forces operations.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Trade and Investment in the Asia Pacific
    • Timor-Leste
    • Asean
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • Pacific Islands

    Economic diplomacy: The Pacific beats ASEAN for nervous investors

    Greg Earl
    Abe Shinzo’s passing and the Timor oil spy case dismissal reveal new thinking about what national security means.
  • 27 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • France
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    France can help Albanese fix AUKUS

    Alan J. Kuperman
    Labor faces a dilemma over nuclear-powered subs and the non-proliferation regime. An old partner might offer an answer.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Support Pacific neighbours by strengthening indigenous food systems

    Essam Yassin Mohammed
    Unique knowledge was usurped by colonialism and imported production. Time to build resilience, from the shore up.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • South China Sea
    • Singapore
    • China
    • Malaysia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom

    Answering China’s South China Sea flying safety challenge

    Peter Layton
    A regional response can best manage risks, and the Five Power Defence Arrangement offers just the mechanism.
  • 25 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

    Australia and the Nuclear Ban Treaty

    Peter Hooton
    If disarmament is to be truly realistic, the world needs to change the conversation about nuclear weapons.
  • 25 Jul 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • International law

    Engaging with the Pacific: the legal angle

    Sarah McCosker , Joanne Wallis , Melissa Conley Tyler
    The often complex and transnational legal challenges facing the region are an opportunity to foster cooperation.
  • 25 Jul 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • France
    • Public Opinion

    France-Australia: Moving beyond AUKUS

    Eglantine Staunton
    A change of PM has certainly helped, and the latest Lowy Poll suggests no enduring damage has been done to relations.
  • 19 Jul 2022
    • Australia

    Australia’s new government seizes the international bully pulpit

    Hugh Piper
    Labor brings a distinct change in rhetoric to foreign and strategic policy. Here are the top five takeaways.
  • 30 Jun 2022
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Global Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Names trump numbers in the new BRI debt battle

    Greg Earl
    As G7 leaders talk up infrastructure spending, Australia’s Pacific family members contemplate how much they can take.
  • 30 Jun 2022
    • Australia

    What Australians fear with China pressing in the Pacific

    Jessica Collins
    Concern about a growing regional influence can be offset by faith in other actors to do the right thing.
  • 28 Jun 2022
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia

    New directions in Australia-Southeast Asia relations

    Susannah Patton
    How the Albanese government could refocus on Southeast Asia in 2022 – and beyond.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Indonesia-Australia climate change cooperation begins with the ocean

    Aristyo Rizka Darmawan
    Mangroves, reefs and fish stocks – the building blocks of stronger approach by both countries to address global warming.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Australia
    • United States

    An Australia-America-Pacific partnership – for and with the region

    Jessica Collins
    Support through consensus and the shared Pacific value system will ensure island nations get what they need most.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • Central Asia
    • Australia
    • Caucasus

    Full throttle: Australia’s advantages alongside Azerbaijan

    Nina Marković Khaze
    Geopolitical change opens the chance to capitalise on goodwill for a potentially valuable partnership.
  • 27 Jun 2022
    • India
    • Australia

    India-Australia relations: Positivity might be coming at a cost

    Aarti Betigeri
    The tricky terrain of maintaining values and of keeping pace with changing colours in the Australian-Indian community.
  • 10 Jun 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australia
    • Sex and Gender

    Penny Wong dives deep into the audacity of the Oceanic Pacific

    ‘Ofa-ki-Levuka (‘Ofa) Guttenbeil-Likiliki
    Nurturing relationships is paramount to break down unequal power dynamics ­– especially in working for women rights.
  • 8 Jun 2022
    • Australia
    • China
    • Timor-Leste

    Timor-Leste, China and Australia, and the influence contest

    Andrea Fahey
    Fostering connections with a new generation of democratic leaders offers Australia an edge in its island neighbour.
  • 8 Jun 2022
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • North Korea

    The Pyongyang problem for the Quad

    Cherry Hitkari
    North Korea poses a challenge for regional security, and so often China has stood to benefit from such instability.
  • 7 Jun 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia

    Wong’s Bahasa pitch to Indonesia

    Daniel Flitton
    Australia will benefit by drawing more of its multicultural character into senior diplomacy.
  • 6 Jun 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • South China Sea
    • Australia
    • China

    A flare up in China’s deliberate pattern of aggression

    Peter Layton
    The intercept of an Australian patrol over the South China Sea escalates a “grey zone” conflict to a dangerous level.
  • 3 Jun 2022
    • Asia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Multilateral Development Banks
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Energy

    Labor should create a “Regional Carbon Bank” for ASEAN and the Pacific

    Peter McCawley
    An urgent demand for clean electricity infrastructure requires needs a dedicated, multilateral agency in support.
  • 2 Jun 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Trade
    • G20
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Economic diplomacy: New Labor ministers are facing up to old issues

    Greg Earl
    Reshaping policies on the Pacific, Indonesia and domestic manufacturing is already revealing a changing of the guard.
  • 2 Jun 2022
    • Asia
    • Global Issues
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Knowledge is power: A small investment for a big return

    Mubashar Hasan
    Australia should see that training rights advocates across the region can be an effective means to bolster democracy.
  • 1 Jun 2022
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australia
    • China

    Competing with China in the Pacific will backfire

    Miranda Booth
    Co-operation, not competition, provides the best chance for Australia to enhance ties with Pacific Island countries.
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