Australia
ASEAN might not be the way
Former senior Australian diplomat Geoff Raby’s substantial article written for the Asia Society and reproduced in the Australian Financial Review this…
NZ and Australia: Big Brothers or Distant Cousins?
“Being in the Pacific, of the Pacific” was an aspiration announced by New Zealand’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fletcher Tabuteau at a recent conference…
Managing the release of convicted terrorists
It has been nearly two decades since the Council of Australian Governments agreed to a national framework to combat terrorism. Now, in the long shadow of the September 11 attacks,…
When friends disagree: New Zealand and Australia
One of Jacinda Ardern’s early prime ministerial tasks was to head off some potentially bad optics in New Zealand’s most important bilateral relationship. After all, she was…
Julie Bishop’s new Timor-Leste chapter
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop arrived in Timor-Leste at the weekend, on her first official visit and the first by any Australian minister to the country in five years…
Bomb, bomb Iran
In this rather strange ABC News article that appeared on Friday, it is reported that “senior figures in the Turnbull government” claim that Washington could bomb targets…
Taiwan and Australia’s refugee treatment deal
Last month, a secret deal was revealed between Taiwan and Australia to send asylum seekers from Nauru to Taiwan for medical treatment. In Australia, the news…
A blueprint for India–Australia economic relations
Few people are as qualified as Peter Varghese to draw up a timely, sound, and realistic blueprint to build a dynamic yet sustainable economic partnership between India and…
Economic diplomacy brief: India ties, Labor on BRI
Passage to India
Two statistics in the new report to the Australian Government on the future economic relationship with India underline how this is going to be a battle…
Australia and India: different worlds
Peter Varghese’s independent report on Australia’s economic strategy for India, released by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week, sounds a confident note for the…