Global Issues

Time to recognise the Crimean Tatar genocide
Time to recognise the Crimean Tatar genocide
Saturday 18 May marks the 80th anniversary of one of history’s least known but most traumatic genocides.Early that morning in 1944, Soviet internal security troops spread…
Beyond borders, beyond loss: How regional cooperation can safeguard Asia’s biodiversity
Beyond borders, beyond loss: How regional cooperation can safeguard Asia’s biodiversity
Asia, a crucial region for migratory species, is witnessing their alarming decline. A major United Nations report released this year warned that one in five of the world’s…
Seek national security? Begin by becoming relevant
Seek national security? Begin by becoming relevant
Geography is a tricky inheritance. For most countries, fate is sealed depending on their position on the map. For some states, the hand dealt by the natural forces condemns them…
Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy
Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy
The latest Australian federal budget, handed down on Tuesday night, pledges unprecedented support to making Australia a “renewable superpower”. Yet a new gas strategy that…
The cause for China’s coercion in the skies may lay under the water
The cause for China’s coercion in the skies may lay under the water
During the Cold War, it was not unheard of for Soviet ships to attempt to disrupt US naval operations by “shouldering” vessels, meaning coming abreast and colliding in a semi…
Australia’s chance to foster good health in Asia and the Pacific
Australia’s chance to foster good health in Asia and the Pacific
As the Assistant Minister for Health Ged Kearney stumbled, rather excruciatingly, over the name of the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom…
The cable shortage: Plugging in offshore wind farms
The cable shortage: Plugging in offshore wind farms
Australia’s late entry into the offshore wind market is a welcome development for clean energy advocates. The federal government this month issued what it has called the first…
Quantum of silence
Quantum of silence
For most people, quantum computers are the stuff of science fiction. Based on shooting microwave photons at “qubits”, quantum computers are estimated to be far more powerful than…
Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists
Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists
New binaries Australian economic leaders have a double-edged history of trying to redefine their opponents out of the political debate from Paul Keating’s “straightmen, fixers…
Cultivating a healthy information environment
Cultivating a healthy information environment
The recent behaviour of some social media companies seems explicitly designed to provoke governments into enacting much more stringent regulation of the sector. Elon Musk’s very…