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  • 21 Mar 2024
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Economic diplomacy: Politics rules in Korean envoy row

    Greg Earl
    From Seoul to Washington, “captain’s pick” ambassadors are being embroiled by unexpected domestic political tensions.
  • 20 Mar 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Technology

    China’s dominance over critical minerals poses an unacceptable risk

    John Coyne , Justin Bassi
    The present market structure gives Beijing a whip hand – and we’ve already seen the consequences.
  • 19 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • United States

    Some allies are more equal than others

    Daniel Flitton
    Trying to make sense of the curious debate about allies' rankings.
  • 18 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Australia and deterrence: Dazed and confused

    Michael Clarke
    Debate about Australia's new nuclear-powered submarines betrays confusion and vagueness about what deterrence is.
  • 15 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Army
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Pacific Islands
    • China and the Pacific
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Vanuatu

    A “climate defence force” for the Pacific

    Thomas Lonergan
    By harnessing human, environmental and resource security, Canberra can counter Beijing’s coercive tactics in the region.
  • 14 Mar 2024
    • Vietnam
    • Australia

    Australia-Vietnam: A partnership made in China?

    Jack Butcher
    Strategic partnerships can begin with certain goals but come to serve totally different purposes.
  • 8 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Fiji
    • Sex and Gender

    Supporting Pacific women to tell the region’s stories

    Rosi Tamani-Doviverata , Kathy McLeish
    Ensuring all local voices are heard makes for far more powerful reporting.
  • 6 Mar 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    ASEAN-Australia: The art of what’s possible

    Daniel Flitton
    The Melbourne summit delivered substance, even though it won’t change the world.
  • 5 Mar 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    ASEAN-Australia: Small steps at the big summit

    Daniel Flitton
    The nitty gritty of diplomatic practice carries a cost for leaders.
  • 5 Mar 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    From confrontation to collaboration: Working together on critical minerals supply chains

    Marina Yue Zhang , Xunpeng (Roc) Shi
    A global energy transition will rely not on decoupling but uniting for a diversified and sustainable future.
  • 5 Mar 2024
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • France
    • United Kingdom
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    A role for nuclear in Australia’s climate response?

    Stephen Grenville
    In the facts-lite political debate, the opportunities and comparative advantages of solar are being sidelined.
  • 4 Mar 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    Melbourne gets a taste of the ASEAN way

    Daniel Flitton
    Terms like 'consensus' and 'cooperation' float through the air, but awkward subjects keep intruding.
  • 1 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Intelligence and security

    ASIO versus the A-team

    Ben Scott
    Mike Burgess kicked off a guessing game with his speech this week – which might have obscured his true message.
  • 1 Mar 2024
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    Australia's new navy: The Japanese option

    Peter Dean
    Japan and Australia have similar security strategies, so why not the same ships?
  • 29 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    What to watch at the ASEAN-Australia summit

    Susannah Patton
    The summit will succeed if the prime minister can build relationships, articulate a clear narrative, and avoid controversy.
  • 28 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    ASEAN-Australia cooperation in the clean energy transition

    Sharon Seah
    Big ambition is the order of the day.
  • 27 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS is a Trump-style deal

    Patrick Triglavcanin
    He rebels against the language of a “rules-based order” but he is happy to talk business.
  • 23 Feb 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Defence & Security

    Economic diplomacy: Strategic funding comes in from the cold

    Greg Earl
    A new review may cast a revealing light on how the government uses third-party institutions to shape the country’s strategic thinking.
  • 21 Feb 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Antarctica

    China has a fifth station in Antarctica

    Claire Young
    Keep calm and do science and inspections.
  • 19 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • European Union
    • Trade
    • Environment

    Kicking up a stink: Europe’s farmers, like those in Australia, are counting costs

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    International turmoil is having mixed political consequences both near and far.
  • 16 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Putting “Australia” at the centre of the country’s foreign policy

    Melissa Conley Tyler , Grant Wyeth
    A “whole of nation” approach can better connect the various elements of Australia’s international engagement.
  • 15 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    Go big or go home: Australia should invest at scale in Southeast Asia’s energy transition

    Michelle Lyons , Roland Rajah , Grace Stanhope
    The Paris Agreement will not succeed if the bid for net zero in Southeast Asia fails.
  • 14 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    National security decision making: Learn from experience, and science

    Ben Scott
    The old way isn’t good enough anymore.
  • 13 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Cambodia
    • Laos
    • Thailand
    • Australia

    ASEAN summit a chance for Australia to reach out to mainland Southeast Asia

    Hadrien T. Saperstein
    Melbourne gathering is a unique chance for Australia to relate to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in ways that do not depend on geopolitical alignment.
  • 12 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Australia’s nuclear energy debate doesn’t have to be partisan

    Dron Parashar
    The technical merits of nuclear power as part of a mix of energy sources should be the foundation for debate here – as it is elsewhere globally.
  • 9 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • United States

    Middle East turmoil and a US pause offer Australia LNG opportunities

    Ian Satchwell
    On the way to net-zero, there is a chance to help bolster Asia’s regional energy security.
  • 8 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Myanmar
    • Australia

    Myanmar and Australia: A partnership paved with good intentions

    Moe Thuzar , Kyi Sin
    Australia’s rationale for engagement has long been a hope to moderate the excesses of the regime. It does not seem to have listened.
  • 7 Feb 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Sex and Gender

    Whose security is really at stake? Gender must be prioritised in Australia‑PNG security agreement

    Sarah Morley
    More police can’t be the answer when police have long been part of the problem.
  • 6 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Philippines
    • Vietnam
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Southeast Asian maritime security: Australia can help

    Hanh Nguyen
    Australia should support Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei in developing their maritime governance capacity to enhance their resilience against threats.
  • 5 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    Southeast Asia is the blessing Australia overlooks

    Alexander Lee
    Avoiding an unhealthy obsession with the superpowers, and instead focusing on Southeast Asia, will create compounding opportunities for Australia.
  • 2 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Quad

    A practical way for Australia to help in the western Indian Ocean

    Jennifer Parker
    Expanding the rollout of a Quad maritime domain awareness initiative would be a boost to security – for the region, and Australia.
  • 1 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    Is AUKUS Pillar I unworkable?

    Matthew C. Mai
    The strategic logic might be compelling, but that alone won’t get the number of nuclear-powered subs built in time.
  • 1 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia

    ASEAN and the arc of uncertainties

    Rahman Yaacob
    Australia will next month host a summit of Southeast Asia’s leaders. What will drive the agenda? And importantly, what won’t?
  • 24 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    We need to talk about “strategic competition”

    Michael Clarke
    The narrow framing of Australian national security discourse has closed off the range of policy options available.
  • 23 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • The Americas

    Australia and Brazil must seize the chance for closer green cooperation

    Deborah Barros Leal Farias , Alexander M. Hynd , William Clapton , Elizabeth Thurbon
    Distance should not be a barrier to recognising – and enhancing – shared interests.
  • 23 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Ukraine

    An Australian strategy for improved aid to Ukraine

    Mick Ryan
    More resources would be a good start – as well as diplomatic backing, better coordination, and a stronger statement about why democracy matters.
  • 22 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Diplomacy: How to pick those who represent us

    Mark Pierce
    Australia’s top envoys can draw out the best, whether professionals or politicians.
  • 19 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Beyond the try line: What PNG’s NRL team means for development

    Kingtau Mambon , David Poka , Maholopa Laveil
    The plan is to spend big – but is this the right field?
  • 19 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Space exploration

    Space surveillance and AUKUS: The power of awareness

    Rebecca Connolly
    A robust system for the surveillance of outer space, including through the use of space-based radar, is vital to national security.
  • 17 Jan 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Africa

    Australia and Africa: Economic diplomacy is out of sync with investment ties

    Ian Satchwell
    While other partners are taking care of business, Australia lacks the trade support it needs to thrive.
  • 8 Jan 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Five ideas from Allan Gyngell for a better foreign policy

    Vafa Ghazavi
    Gyngell saw “national interest” as a matter for democratic discussion, always valuing the search for solutions.
  • 29 Dec 2023
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    Keeping languages alive in the family

    Hannah Sarvasy
    How many Australians can speak one of Papua New Guinea’s many Indigenous languages – even those who work there?
  • 28 Dec 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Technology

    Lithium, lightest metal on earth, carries heavy geopolitical weight

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Instead of a source of great tech power competition, lithium should be key to a collective fight against climate change.
  • 22 Dec 2023
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • United States

    Why did PNG sign a Defence Cooperation Agreement with the US?

    Patrick Kaiku , Faith Hope Boie
    For Port Moresby, this deal is mainly about modernising PNG’s Defence Force – not a geopolitical ploy.
  • 21 Dec 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia must work with Bangladesh to stop the Rohingya boats

    David Brewster
    Extra aid is welcome. The next task is to build Bangladesh’s capabilities.
  • 20 Dec 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia

    Albanese’s foreign policy speech: “Boring” sounds just right

    Daniel Flitton
    Regular updates about Australia’s position in the world do the public a great service.
  • 20 Dec 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Australia
    • Environment

    The great offshore decommissioning

    Selwyn Parker
    More than 70 per cent of the world’s oil and gas production comes via ageing infrastructure rapidly approaching an economic limit.
  • 19 Dec 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Australia–PNG security agreement: A revamp for Pacific partnerships

    Oliver Nobetau
    A technical perspective into the intended operation of the bilateral security deal between the close neighbours.
  • 19 Dec 2023
    • Australia
    • Intelligence and security

    Decoding good intelligence

    Miah Hammond-Errey
    Transparency – in the sense of a good public understanding of the role and value of intelligence – is essential to support.
  • 14 Dec 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Shifting Quad relief operations from theory to practice

    Neely Haby
    A relief operation exercise would allow the Quad partners to draw in other countries and showcase a regional good. 
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