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  • 19 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • China
    • Coronavirus

    Are you ready for how the coronavirus is transforming the world?

    Alistair Nicholas , Guy McKanna
    China is likely to emerge from this crisis far stronger economically, and Australia must look beyond “selling stuff”.
  • 19 Mar 2020
    • Global Issues
    • United Nations
    • Australia
    • Timor-Leste
    • Coronavirus

    The future ain’t what it used to be

    Gordon Peake , Christian Downie
    If Covid-19 teaches us anything, obviously we need to plan, but let’s not pretend the future is actually predictable.
  • 16 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • Philippines

    Australia-Philippines: Prolonged partners

    Lucy West , Dan Halvorson
    Manila’s termination of defence ties with Washington will have a geopolitical cost, but Canberra has history on side.
  • 9 Mar 2020
    • Australia

    Australia’s intelligence community needs another independent review

    Alex Oliver , Danielle Cave
    None of the assessments done to date have looked at why women remain under-represented in senior roles.
  • 9 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    Playing to strengths: The best use of Australian aid in the Pacific

    Amanda Robbins , Rachel Mason Nunn
    Big spending on infrastructure catches headlines but replicates the work of others and may not be what the region needs.
  • 4 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Modern slavery reports, year one: What can we expect?

    JJ Rose
    New legislation requires companies to assess labour conditions in their supply chains. It’s a good idea, but not enough.
  • 3 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • India

    Australia should speak out on India’s democratic crisis

    Priya Chacko , Ruchira Talukdar
    The drive for good relations with New Delhi cannot be allowed to blind Canberra to the importance of protecting rights.
  • 28 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Car manufacturing and Australia: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

    Nicholas Gruen
    What might have been, had Australia had a crack at becoming a strategic hub for niche “world cars”.
  • 26 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Energy

    Australia has an IEA problem, not a fuel security problem

    Jacob Stokes
    Perhaps it is time for Australia look to the Asia-Pacific for a more appropriate energy cooperation agreement.
  • 21 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Israel

    Australia and Israel should be partners in Asia

    Gedaliah Afterman
    In a changing strategic landscape, likeminded countries have the chance to identify and grasp new opportunities.
  • 19 Feb 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia

    Australia can’t continue to divide the Indian Ocean in two

    David Brewster
    We’re approaching an Indo-Pacific strategy with a glass half-full – best to fill it up entirely.
  • 18 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Jokowi’s speech to the Australian parliament: an ode to friendship

    Andree Surianta
    Much more than only trade and investment, the Indonesian President has grander ambitions for the two neighbours.
  • 18 Feb 2020
    • The Americas
    • Australia

    The politics of fire, from the Amazon to the bush

    Deborah Barros Leal Farias
    Brazil and Australia have treated recent continental infernos in some remarkably similar ways.
  • 13 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Economic diplomacy: Indonesian trade deals and real deals

    Greg Earl
    “Boats, beef, and Bali” seem bad words no more, and Jokowi and Morrison set out to strike a new tone.
  • 13 Feb 2020
    • Australia

    Fires to floods: My place in Australia’s summer of disaster

    Edmond Roy
    It seems a sin to want this rain to stop, when just a few weeks ago we were praying for this very thing.
  • 13 Feb 2020
    • Australia

    China, Australia, and the gulf between leaders and led

    Sam Roggeveen
    The biggest shift in Australia’s strategic circumstances in a century will test our politics as much as our US alliance.
  • 11 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Australia-Indonesia: Building trust

    Sian Troath
    After lurching from crisis to crisis, the two countries can forge a shared interest in keeping a steady relationship.
  • 11 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Indonesia

    Jokowi’s Canberra trip: A step ahead on a long road

    Ben Bland
    The Indonesian president’s visit demonstrated the two countries’ progress together, as well as gaps that remain.
  • 10 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    Next steps in Australia’s coronavirus strategy

    Dominic Meagher
    A travel ban stopped the spread of the virus but such a policy is not sustainable. Here is what more can be can done.
  • 7 Feb 2020
    • Indonesia
    • Australia

    Australia-Indonesia: An uncertain world makes for firm friends

    Greta Nabbs-Keller
    Both countries have more and more in common, a fact which should challenge old tropes about difference.
  • 6 Feb 2020
    • Australia

    Australian politics: Trouble at the top, again

    Daniel Flitton
    Scott Morrison, after a torrid summer, now has to contend with big hat brashness inside his junior coalition partner.
  • 3 Feb 2020
    • The Americas
    • Australia
    • China

    Where Latin America can learn from Australia in dealing with China

    Francisco de Santibañes
    Rising Chinese influence has put South American capitals in a bind. Australia might provide them some useful lessons.
  • 31 Jan 2020
    • Diplomacy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • The Trump Presidency

    A new ambassador in Washington

    Alan C. Tidwell
    A diplomatic changing of the guard means Australia has a chance to have a different conversation.
  • 29 Jan 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Australia
    • India

    Scott Morrison wasn’t at the Raisina Dialogue, but his ideas were

    Darren Lim
    The political centre-right is seeking to redefine what “internationalism” means with an emphasis on sovereignty.
  • 28 Jan 2020
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • China

    The US is elbowing Australia and allies in a race for the China market

    John Edwards
    Australia needs to be very wary of how Donald Trump’s “unbelievable deal” will play out.
  • 28 Jan 2020
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia
    • Iran

    Q&A: Jason Rezaian on Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s nightmare in Iran

    Daniel Flitton
    The American journalist – also once a prisoner in Tehran – wants Australia to push to end Iran’s state hostage-taking.
  • 16 Jan 2020
    • Australia
    • China
    • Climate change

    Economic diplomacy: Two big-C issues

    Greg Earl
    China and climate change are new realities both putting Australia to the test.
  • 14 Jan 2020
    • Australia
    • Technology

    The Australian lag in tech policy

    Xueyin Zha
    As European regulators catch up with the digital economy, their Aussie counterparts seem nothing but laid-back.
  • 9 Jan 2020
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    Climate leadership: An idea whose time has come?

    Mark Beeson
    The Canberra Bubble seems to stifle good ideas, so the challenge for citizens make our leaders take security seriously.
  • 8 Jan 2020
    • Australia
    • India

    India-Australia strategic convergence … with differences

    Manjeet S. Pardesi
    Both countries need to psychologically prepare for a “new” world of rising powers and those in relative decline.
  • 20 Dec 2019
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Chinese Foreign Aid
    • Australia
    • China

    Little to gain from linking Australia’s aid with China in the Pacific

    Michael Fullilove , Jonathan Pryke
    Canberra is the biggest donor in the neighbourhood and has regional goals very different from Beijing.
  • 19 Dec 2019
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • India

    Economic diplomacy: Indian trade, taming BRI, and diaspora business

    Greg Earl
    Ahead of the PM’s visit to India next month, the economic strategies of Australia and India haven’t quite yet aligned.
  • 17 Dec 2019
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • India

    India and Australia, newfound friends?

    Aarti Betigeri
    Australia has been trying to get India’s attention for some time – and it seems it has finally managed to crack through.
  • 17 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    Favourites of 2019: Ross Garnaut on climate

    Stephen Grenville
    Escaping the gloomy view, a positive look at the opportunities for renewable power might just match the public mood.
  • 13 Dec 2019
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australia
    • China

    Pacifying Australia-China relations

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    Cooperation in the Pacific Islands would be valuable precisely because it is difficult.
  • 13 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • China

    In Australia’s China “debate”, there is no monopoly on morality

    Iain Henry
    It would be tragic if anger at China’s sins prompted Australia to adopt policies making even greater misery more likely.
  • 12 Dec 2019
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • India
    • Indonesia

    Strength in numbers in the eastern Indian Ocean

    Arzan Tarapore
    India has compelling reasons to expand its presence in east waters – and Australia has broader reasons to help.
  • 10 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • Technology

    Share, like, comment, attack: Social media as weapon and battlefield

    Damien Spry
    Parliament will examine threat of foreign actors using social media to cajole, harass, hoodwink, and exploit the public.
  • 9 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • India

    India and Australia: Reciprocity, mutuality, and promise

    Danielle Rajendram , Mukund Narayanamurti
    A former senior diplomat is crafting an economic strategy for India to deal with Australia – a first for India.
  • 6 Dec 2019
    • Australia

    We’ve already had Our Very Own Brexit

    Nicholas Gruen
    Instead of munching popcorn at the political theatre, citizens’ assemblies would give the community a chance to reflect.
  • 5 Dec 2019
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Africa

    Diego Garcia: The costs of defending an Indian Ocean outpost

    Samuel Bashfield
    Australian support for Britain’s contentious Chagos sovereignty claim risks delegitimising its South China Sea policy.
  • 3 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • China

    The Wang Liqiang case in Cold War perspective

    Paul Monk
    We should encourage defectors from Chinese intelligence services, even if the bona fides in this case are not yet clear.
  • 3 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Hollowed out, but not unhinged

    Judith Brett
    The scenario put forth in Sam Roggeveen’s “Our very own Brexit” runs counter to the major parties’ economic realities.
  • 2 Dec 2019
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • China

    Reconsidering Australia’s China debate

    Yun Jiang
    A simplistic “pro-China”–“anti-China” division ignores complex questions and shuts down the conversation.
  • 2 Dec 2019
    • Australia
    • Papua New Guinea

    Cultural heritage key to regional development in PNG and Australia

    Chris Urwin
    Exchanging ideas about successes on either side of the Coral Sea can lead the way to connecting people and institutions.
  • 29 Nov 2019
    • Australia
    • China

    Taking the Confucius Institutes at face value

    Kieran Donelly , Sung-Young Kim
    Properly examining the evidence will allow Australia to assess more credible threats of China’s foreign influence.
  • 29 Nov 2019
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Southeast Asia

    Time with Trump: Australia and Southeast Asia compared

    Malcolm Cook
    Although the US president has yet to set foot in Australia, Australian leaders have got Trump’s attention.
  • 28 Nov 2019
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Australia

    Behrouz Boochani: Still in limbo

    Madeline Gleeson
    The Kurdish-Iranian journalist left Manus Island after six years, but the bureaucratic hurdles still lie before him.
  • 26 Nov 2019
    • Australia
    • Migration

    Shock therapy: why Australia needs a political jolt

    John West
    Taking an honest look at a worst-case scenario isn’t scaremongering but could instead help avoid doing ourselves harm.
  • 25 Nov 2019
    • Pacific Islands
    • Australia
    • Pakistan

    Stepping up in the Pacific at the expense of Pakistani women and girls

    Stephen Howes
    Cutting aid has a cost – and Australia should be embarrassed to take aid from other countries to give it to the Pacific.
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