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  • 16 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy

    Finding opportunity in Australia’s liquid fuel security challenge

    Heidi Hauf , Christian Bennett
    Sustainable Aviation Fuel – whether for Defence or commercial aviation requirements – can help fix a national problem.
  • 7 Jun 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia

    Australia’s lost appeal: Reversing a downward trend for Japanese students

    Ryosuke Hanada
    Education links are a weak spot in the Australia-Japan Special Strategic Partnership. Both countries can fix this.
  • 5 Jun 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • International law
    • War Crimes
    • United States

    Lessons from history: Comparing Australia’s response to war crimes with the United States

    Daniel Flitton
    The fallout from the Ben Roberts-Smith case is only the beginning of a reckoning about justice in war.
  • 1 Jun 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    How Australia can speak up on human rights in India

    Hugh Piper
    Modi won’t be prime minister for ever, so finding ways to air concerns now will actually strengthen relations long term.
  • 25 May 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia

    Where has Australia’s foreign policy ambition gone?

    Connor O’Brien
    Labor has adopted a status quo attitude to the world, lacking a vision for reshaping global affairs.
  • 23 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Terrorism
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • International law
    • War Crimes
    • Africa

    It’s time Australia branded Russia’s Wagner Group a terrorist organisation

    Isabella Currie , Matthew Sussex
    A record of abuses in conflicts from Ukraine to Africa makes designating the Russian group the right choice.
  • 22 May 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Albanese should raise human rights concerns with Modi

    Elaine Pearson
    Australia must not to repeat the mistake of allowing the promise of trade to override a need to stand up for values.
  • 19 May 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Global Issues
    • United States

    Building a Quad that lasts to the next generation

    Kate Clayton , Eleanor Shiori Hughes
    Joe Biden won’t decide the future of the Quad. But he and the other engaged leaders can help foster it.
  • 19 May 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia

    First Nations diplomacy can transform Australia’s relationship with Indonesia

    Ridvan Kilic
    If stronger “people-to-people” links are the aim, experience from the world’s oldest living culture offers a guide.
  • 19 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Technology

    AI vs democracy: the battle is already here

    Anton van den Hengel
    The first disruption was to the business model of journalism. Australia has yet to heed the warning.  
  • 18 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • New Zealand

    Remembering Australia’s “other” alliance

    Joanne Wallis , Anna Powles
    New Zealand has dropped off the radar in modern strategic discussions despite the long history of trans-Tasman ties.
  • 17 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    Biden’s trip cancellations reveal pitfalls of a crowded diplomatic calendar

    Daniel Flitton
    Bailing on Australia and PNG highlights the growing risk of disappointment when leaders are clambering to summits here, there, everywhere.
  • 16 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Indigenous Voice: Getting ready to explain to the world if Australia votes “No”

    Hugh Piper
    The referendum is a pivotal moment for global perceptions of Australia. Diplomats must be ready whatever the outcome.
  • 16 May 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Life in Australia’s aid program - but not as we know it

    Grace Stanhope
    The cost of development measures is being spread across government in creative ways, making coordination harder.
  • 12 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Australia’s future security: Where the Defence Strategic Review falls short

    Bec Strating , Joanne Wallis
    An integrated National Security Strategy could consider all the tools of statecraft rather than a defensive mindset.
  • 11 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Paying for a new security era

    Greg Earl
    The budget contains some tantalising hints about future foreign policy, offset by some doleful old realities.
  • 11 May 2023
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Australia: The lynchpin of a modernised Commonwealth

    Sam Bidwell
    A network of middle powers and small states supporting one another. What’s not to like?
  • 9 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    DFAT: Show me the money

    Daniel Flitton
    Reports of a boost to spending to Australia’s diplomatic machinery need to be judged against what has been cut before.
  • 8 May 2023
    • Australia

    Curiosity and openness: Allan Gyngell’s light touch in the early days at the Lowy Institute

    Anthony Bubalo
    Experiment and evolve was the message, and he did it by putting trust in the next generation of voices.
  • 5 May 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Budget time: Will Labor rebuild Australia’s aid program, and how? 

    Roland Rajah , Riley Duke
    Global crisis and shifting economic realities mean Australia must both rebuild and modernise its development efforts.
  • 2 May 2023
    • Asia
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Free Trade
    • Global Issues

    Choosing openness in the international economy

    Andrew Leigh
    As the region seeks to rebound from a global economic downturn, the free flow of goods and services is key.
  • 2 May 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Managing Japan-Australia energy tensions in a time of transition

    James Bowen
    Australia can’t afford to support Japan’s carbon emissions anymore than its own.
  • 1 May 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition

    Muyi Yang
    Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports.
  • 27 Apr 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Friends, rivals and diplomatic gaslighting

    Greg Earl
    Money still talks in a new world of tighter security alliances when Japan and China can align against Australia on energy.
  • 26 Apr 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Australia

    The two big flaws in Penny Wong’s talk of deterrence over Taiwan

    Hugh White
    It’s wishful thinking to dismiss debate on the most difficult and important foreign policy question as a “parlour game”.
  • 26 Apr 2023
    • Asean
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • United States

    Quad should ask ASEAN to a diplomatic dance

    Ved Shinde
    For all the talk of hedging, Southeast Asian nations have long worried about China’s ambition to dominate the region.
  • 21 Apr 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Strategic divergence with Indonesia: an Australian perspective

    Susannah Patton
    Despite expected differences with Indonesia, Australia also underplays how fast its regional approach has changed in just a decade.
  • 20 Apr 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Embracing the different ways Indonesia and Australia view the region

    Evan A Laksmana
    It would be a mistake to assume enhanced defence cooperation means the two countries share a strategic outlook.
  • 20 Apr 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Solomon Islands

    Questions about Australian aid to fund the Pacific Games

    Stephen Howes
    Australia is backing a sports tournament over urgent development needs, and doing so may break international aid rules.
  • 19 Apr 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • United States

    Hugh White on the choice facing Penny Wong

    Hugh White
    How long can the Foreign Minister talk of a multipolar order in Asia in a government working to bolster US strategic primacy?
  • 19 Apr 2023
    • Australia
    • Public Opinion

    Chinese-Australians feel more at home

    Jennifer Hsu
    Despite tension in Australia-China relations, Chinese-Australians express stronger connection and trust in Australia.
  • 17 Apr 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

    AUKUS: What to do with nuclear waste?

    Maria Rost Rublee
    Only by investing in community consent – “social licence” – can the government be certain about long-term storage plans.
  • 14 Apr 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Europe

    No Albo at NATO, no worries

    Patrick Triglavcanin
    Australia’s diplomatic effort has been in overdrive. That doesn’t change by not sending a minister to Vilnius.
  • 14 Apr 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Climate change
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • Pacific Islands

    A strategy for engaging for small developing states

    Hamish Fejo
    If Australia is serious about climate change, it needs better relationships with island nations – near and far.
  • 6 Apr 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Review

    What “Utopia” got wrong about China and defence policy

    Sam Roggeveen
    If Australia didn’t have a Defence Force, would China have turned to force rather than economic coercion?
  • 6 Apr 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    China is its own worst enemy

    Daniel R. DePetris
    Xi’s belligerence prompts classic balancing, an alignment among smaller states that would alone struggle to compete.
  • 4 Apr 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • United States

    To help end war in Ukraine, the Quad should back India to engage Russia

    Adarsh Badri
    India might be accused of playing both sides but also has the special relationships to lead a push towards a settlement.
  • 3 Apr 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    What the Quad could learn from AUKUS

    Arzan Tarapore
    If the four powers decide to adopt a greater security role, they should go beyond empty signals.
  • 30 Mar 2023
    • China
    • South China Sea
    • Australia
    • Resource security

    Climate change, ironically, reduces the heat in the South China Sea

    John Quiggin
    The days for oil and gas are numbered, so the economic case of a fight over undersea resources doesn’t stack up.
  • 28 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    The economics of AUKUS

    Jenny Gordon
    A formal cost-benefit analysis wouldn’t go astray to help understand the benefits had a different decision been made.
  • 27 Mar 2023
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    Philippines: The best friend for AUKUS in Southeast Asia

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Manila has stood apart on Australia’s nuclear-powered subs deal as a sympathetic democracy seeking to balance China.
  • 24 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Antarctica
    • Sustainability

    Krill campaign less than thrilling

    Claire Young
    Sea Shepherd should widen its net beyond activism by diversifying efforts to support sustainable fishing.
  • 23 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Public Opinion

    Ending the climate wars: the public’s mandate

    Ryan Neelam
    Australians understand the need to act. As global scientists issue the clearest warning yet, can Labor deliver?
  • 22 Mar 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    AUKUS commits Australia to fight China if America does, simple

    Hugh White
    Whatever the flag, Washington would not sell nuclear-powered boats unless it could count on them in war over Taiwan.
  • 22 Mar 2023
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Myanmar
    • Australia

    Can ASEAN forge a political solution in Myanmar?

    Rebecca Barber
    Indonesia and Australia have different but equally critical roles in bringing the junta to the negotiating table.
  • 21 Mar 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • International law

    Could Indonesia legally stop transit by nuclear-powered AUKUS subs?

    Dita Liliansa
    International law includes passage rights for all vessels in archipelagic waters – during peace or wartime.
  • 20 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands

    AUKUS in the Pacific: Calm with undercurrents

    Meg Keen
    Pacific neighbours understand the drivers behind Australia’s bid for nuclear-powered subs, but still harbour concerns.
  • 17 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    AUKUS: The pillars of Hercules

    Peter Tesch
    Wishful thinking will not make the world more benign. Ambition carries a cost, but Australia has a responsibility, too.
  • 17 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    The limits on Australia’s submarine industry

    John Edwards
    Long before the last boat is delivered, the business will be winding down.
  • 10 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS: Asking a veteran submariner what to think

    Justin Burke
    What are the big issues still lurking beneath the surface of the AUKUS debate?
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