Values play a proportionately larger part in the conceptualisation and practice of Australian foreign policy than is the case in most other Western democracies
The latest election results strengthen Modi’s hold on political power in India, but we can expect a lot more of the same in his approach to international affairs: some risk-taking, more energy, greater clarity, and a dash of showmanship.
It is time for Australia to pick up some of the slack regionally as the Trump Administration pursues an America First policy. The time is right to advance bilateral relations to a strategic partnership level.
Syrian refugees opening for business in Turkey, the impact of the EU-Turkey deal on asylum seekers, teachers using mobile phones as education tools in refugee camps and more.
There are some ideas in politics that turn a lot of laps before they find favour. Few have done the distance that a super national security department has.
The Foreign Policy White Paper will need to address the way economic and security analysts often talk past each other in the Australian policymaking space.
PNG wants Australia to fund education and health services, Manus Island Detention Centre - closed, but still operating, and two years after Cyclone Pam.
Policy-makers need to modifying government narratives and policy settings to embrace and celebrate the success of Australian investment internationally, as well as foreign investment in Australia.
Universal basic income experiment in Kenya, South Sudanese government increases foreign aid visa fees days after famine declared, fund opposing Trump's global gag rule reaches $190 million and more.
Impeachment provisions are the constitutional equivalent of emergency brakes. One hopes they will never have to be used – but if they are, you pray fervently that they work properly.
South Korea's likely next president Moon Jae-in favours an engagement-heavy approach toward North Korea that may push the US relationship into crisis, since the Trump administration has signalled a hard line on the regime.
If the military and King work together there is every chance Thailand can continue its current stability. That, however, is likely to be at the expense of democracy and the freedoms it affords.
China walks the talk on infrastructure spending, Chinese tourists overtake Australians in Bali, and two different views on Trump and the global economy.
What could Australia could possibly do to make itself quite so indispensable that Washington would be prepared to defend Australia at the possible risk of losing a major American city?