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  • 9 Mar 2023
    • India
    • Australia

    Finding the right approach to India as a “Civilisational State”

    Benedict Coleridge
    Australian diplomacy must be careful about the domestic political messages that accompany any complex relationship.
  • 9 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    A first for Australia, and First Nations Australians

    Hamish Fejo
    Now the hard work begins to ensure a First Nations Foreign Policy amounts to more than words.
  • 9 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Emerging Threats
    • Terrorism

    A strategy for securing Australian democracy

    Levi West
    Rising right-wing extremism threatens the liberties we take for granted, which means Canberra needs a new plan.
  • 7 Mar 2023
    • India
    • Australia

    Getting India right

    Ian Hall
    Shared concern over China is one thing but Anthony Albanese must also overcome misapprehensions about India’s rise.
  • 1 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    Reflections on the 29th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum

    Natasha Turia
    More action led outputs needed.
  • 24 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Australia–New Zealand
    • China-Australia Relations
    • New Zealand

    The Australia-New Zealand alliance in a war with China

    Robert Ayson
    The potential for conflict in the region should have Canberra and Wellington thinking about shared strategic risks.
  • 16 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Global Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Banking on Asia is hard to escape

    Greg Earl
    Australian banks are stepping back from Asia just as the government pushes for business to diversify away from China.
  • 13 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Ukraine needs tanks – Australia should send some

    Dave Sharma
    The war is entering a new phase and our support needs to keep pace with developments on the ground.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia and Indonesia can lead a response to refugee crisis in the region

    Andrew Hudson
    Shared information will help with rescue efforts and to pursue the leaders in people smuggling outfits.
  • 9 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    Richard Woolcott: Navigating great change

    William Fisher
    Contacts and controversy, remembering a peerless diplomat’s life in the thick of it.
  • 8 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Trade

    What the China thaw means for Australia’s trade diversification agenda

    Leigh Howard
    While it’s easy to say never again allow one market to dominate, the promise of premium prices will be hard to ignore.
  • 6 Feb 2023
    • Asia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • United States

    The big picture: five lessons for five years of the Asia Power Index

    Hervé Lemahieu
    Superpower rivalry matters – but don’t be blinded to the role of smaller players in a region of many contests.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Diversification is hard to do

    Greg Earl
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers should rise above outdated jibes at the IMF to justify his aims for a new values-based economy.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • France

    France-Australia: Salving the wounds of AUKUS

    Eglantine Staunton
    After the crisis over the subs deal, both countries stand to benefit from a normalisation of ties.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Myanmar
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Australia’s Myanmar sanctions: now for the real decisions

    Susannah Patton
    Two years after the coup, there are still many reasons why Canberra is stepping cautiously with its punitive measures.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • France

    Marles torpedoes French subs, but is yet to explain nuclear advantage

    Sam Roggeveen
    For such a high-stakes and expensive enterprise the public deserves to know not just what boats we’re getting, but why.
  • 23 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Chinese Trade
    • Australia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    How will China’s punitive trade restrictions against Australia end?

    Justin Brown
    Good vibes could turn into a solution – but if China demands a quid pro quo, reaching agreement will be complex.
  • 20 Jan 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Review

    How an Australian freed an unfinished nation’s history

    Duncan Graham
    The fascinating story of how Indonesia came to better know itself through a time of repressive regimes.
  • 18 Jan 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Technology
    • Sex and Gender

    Link start-ups ecosystems to build influence in Southeast Asia

    Robert Law
    Australia should launch a major initiative to support investment with new business prospects in the region.
  • 17 Jan 2023
    • Australia
    • Multiculturalism

    Australia should have more public holidays – but make them civic and secular

    Hugh Piper
    Allowing people to choose their own days of significance would better reflect our modern national identity.
  • 16 Jan 2023
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Technology
    • United States

    Towards meaningful Quad cooperation on intelligence

    Arzan Tarapore
    Collaborative AI capabilities would allow the partners to deepen military cooperation, should leaders choose that step.
  • 13 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Australian immigration
    • Migration

    Undue suspicion of Chinese Australian scientists slows progress

    Yun Jiang
    Clear guidance is needed how national security is assessed in research and what are the boundaries of collaboration.
  • 12 Jan 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Multiculturalism

    Our public holidays should reflect Australia’s multicultural make-up

    Osmond Chiu
    Many countries in the region already have more public holidays to recognise diverse cultural and religious populations.
  • 5 Jan 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    Australia’s mainstream media neglected Asia’s Covid stories

    Ross Tapsell
    A heavy focus on how the US and UK struggled with the pandemic further removed Australians from their neighbourhood.
  • 28 Dec 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia

    How to Interpret 2022: Australians change government

    Clare Caldwell
    What our columnists and contributors made of the protagonists and power plays during this year’s federal election.
  • 27 Dec 2022
    • China
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Solomon Islands

    How to Interpret 2022: Solomon Islands strikes a deal

    Clare Caldwell
    Honiara’s foreign policy caused ripples across the region, as we round up highlights of the year from The Interpreter.
  • 21 Dec 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia
    • Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting
    • Bougainville
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Review

    Seeking independence: three books to read this summer

    Jessica Collins
    From Timorese history and Bougainville’s dreams to Australia’s regional stories, catch up on essential background.
  • 19 Dec 2022
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    A focused direction for the Quad

    Erin Mello
    Doubling-down on existing initiatives – rather than new goals – will see the grouping deliver tangible public goods.
  • 16 Dec 2022
    • China
    • Australia
    • Review

    Beyond binary choices in Australia China relations

    Jennifer Hsu
    Trade partner or security threat? Might we escape the trap of over securitisation with more diversity in leadership?
  • 15 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: From pollie crises to polycrisis

    Greg Earl
    There are political bunfights, strategic challenges and wicked problems, but let’s not “overcrisify” the world.
  • 14 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    It’s complicated: psychology and national security decisions

    Ben Scott
    Thinking about the plethora of security threats all at once is hard ­– which can increase the risk of bias intruding.
  • 9 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    US-Australia alliance: beyond sentiment

    Caitlin Byrne , Peter Dean , Stephan Frühling , Andrew O'Neil
    Of supporters or sceptics alike, new research shows most Australians view the alliance via a cost-benefit analysis.
  • 8 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    AUSMIN: the submarine conundrum

    Justin Burke
    It’s a big challenge to manage the ambition for nuclear-powered subs and still juggle other crucial defence decisions.
  • 2 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Australia wants to attract the world’s best? Make it easier to migrate

    Aarti Betigeri
    An overdue review can start fixing national skills shortages by smoothing the way for workers and families to settle.
  • 1 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Global Issues
    • Qatar
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Scoring goals outside the stadium

    Greg Earl
    Shifting geopolitics and economics make picking the diplomatic champion from the Qatar World Cup more challenging.
  • 30 Nov 2022
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Supporting the kind of region we want

    Richard Marles
    In tougher strategic times, ASEAN stands as a crucial forum to ensure competition doesn’t tip into confrontation.
  • 30 Nov 2022
    • India
    • Australia
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Maritime Security

    Australia–India: “Hands Across the Water”

    Justin Burke
    Naval port visits send important signals and contribute to the thriving bilateral relationship.
  • 28 Nov 2022
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Diplomacy
    • Foreign Policy

    Confident, competent, inconsistent: Australia’s strategic personality

    Ian Hall
    Canberra’s report card receives a solid “pleasing result” on Southeast Asia, but a “could do better” on the Pacific.
  • 25 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • The Americas

    Fruits of labour: Guatemala’s 30 minutes with the PM

    Daniel Flitton
    With farmers in Australia crying out for more workers, some outside-the-box thinking could help.
  • 24 Nov 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Defence and development reviews: bringing parallel tracks together

    Tom Barber
    A cultural change in the way Australia’s approach to the world is formulated and prosecuted.
  • 17 Nov 2022
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Charging up old ties with Jakarta

    Greg Earl
    Australia has stepped up a trade diversification push despite the first moves towards reconciliation with China.
  • 16 Nov 2022
    • China
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy

    “Big differences to manage”: Albanese and Xi put a value on diplomacy

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    The government can say Australia didn’t have to give up interests or values to restart dialogue.
  • 8 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Multilateral Institutions

    COP out: Should Albanese be in Egypt? And what about APEC? G20? EAS?

    Daniel Flitton
    The demands on leaders in global diplomacy have only grown but that hasn’t made negotiations more meaningful.
  • 7 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    Australia and B‑21 bombers: less bang for the buck

    Hugh White
    It’s an expensive habit to think about the military not as a practical tool but as a symbol of strategic intent.
  • 4 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    The real message B‑52s send from northern Australia

    Sam Roggeveen
    Given distances and demands on crew and aircraft, a US bomber fleet near Darwin amounts to only modest change.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • International law

    Ashmore Reef resurfaces as a maritime headache

    Donald R Rothwell
    A loose arrangement between Australia and Indonesia over the uninhabited islands is set to become a little less loose.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Economic diplomacy: Searching for APEC

    Greg Earl
    APEC faces some new competition as Australia considers the sovereign risks involved in reducing domestic gas prices.
  • 3 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Islamic State
    • Global Issues
    • Migration

    Risks and responses repatriating foreign terrorist fighters and families

    Khalid Koser , Lilla Schumicky-Logan
    Australia is bringing home families that lived under Islamic State, and experience overseas offers valuable lessons.
  • 2 Nov 2022
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    B-52 bombers only part of a very long Australian story

    Miranda Booth
    A revamp of RAAF Tindal for the nuclear-capable aircraft creates opportunities well beyond military confidence building.
  • 2 Nov 2022
    • India
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Global Issues

    Australia must help turn back a regional democratic retreat 

    Kevin Casas-Zamora
    With only half the Indo-Pacific a democracy, a collective approach is needed to bolster critical institutions.
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