Australia
Engaging with the Pacific: the legal angle
One tool that is often overlooked in Australia-Pacific cooperation is the role of legal engagement, including support for local capacity and enhancing international legal…
Australia’s new government seizes the international bully pulpit
The new Labor government has already made a determined effort to set a new narrative and tone for Australia in the world. A remarkable pace of speeches, there have already been 13…
The Quad needs a futures focus
If there is a cumulative lesson from the past few years, it’s that the era of “polycrises” is firmly upon us. A polycrisis is defined as the net effect from the non-linear…
Economic diplomacy: Names trump numbers in the new BRI debt battle
Back to basics
In the end, it seems, former prime minister Scott Morrison was on to something with his negative globalist scepticism about building a better world.
If one…
What Australians fear with China pressing in the Pacific
The 2022 Lowy Poll of Australian public opinion shows that a record nine out of ten Australians feel the Australia-United States alliance under the ANZUS arrangement is critical…
New directions in Australia-Southeast Asia relations
Australia’s new Labor government has committed to refocusing attention on Southeast Asia, in response to what it argues was a record of neglect under the Coalition government…
France-Australia: Moving beyond AUKUS
The announcement of the trilateral security partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (commonly referred as AUKUS) in September last year put an end…
Indonesia-Australia climate change cooperation begins with the ocean
The recent visit to Jakarta by Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was productive. Among many issues raised in a joint communique released following a meeting with…
Full throttle: Australia’s advantages alongside Azerbaijan
Historically, Azerbaijan was known as the world capital of black caviar. More recently, in the years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the thorny issue of the disputed…
An Australia-America-Pacific partnership – for and with the region
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi last month set out on a tour of the Pacific, carrying a plan for a big new region-wide agreement and scores of bilateral ones. At the same time…