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Remembering Allan Gyngell
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Five ideas from Allan Gyngell for a better foreign policy

Vafa Ghazavi

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Curiosity and openness: Allan Gyngell’s light touch in the early days at the Lowy Institute

Anthony Bubalo

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Remembering Allan Gyngell, “the finest mind in Australian foreign policy”

Daniel Flitton
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Australia and Indonesia: Two outlooks on the Indo-Pacific
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Strategic divergence with Indonesia: an Australian perspective

Susannah Patton

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Embracing the different ways Indonesia and Australia view the region

Evan A Laksmana
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AUKUS: Risks and Rewards
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The social licence for AUKUS has not yet been earned

Peter K. Lee , Alice Nason , Sophie Mayo

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The “somewhat” conundrum: Lack of communication bedevils AUKUS support

David Vallance

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AUKUS + NZ = win-win

Reuben Steff

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AUKUS: What to do with nuclear waste?

Maria Rost Rublee

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The economics of AUKUS

Jenny Gordon

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Philippines: The best friend for AUKUS in Southeast Asia

Richard Javad Heydarian

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AUKUS commits Australia to fight China if America does, simple

Hugh White

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Could Indonesia legally stop transit by nuclear-powered AUKUS subs?

Dita Liliansa

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Australia, China, AUKUS and the squandered advantage

Sam Roggeveen

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AUKUS in the Pacific: Calm with undercurrents

Meg Keen

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AUKUS: The pillars of Hercules

Peter Tesch

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The limits on Australia’s submarine industry

John Edwards

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AUKUS: Asking a veteran submariner what to think

Justin Burke

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AUKUS and intellectual property

Naoise McDonagh , Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann

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France-Australia: Salving the wounds of AUKUS

Eglantine Staunton

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Marles torpedoes French subs, but is yet to explain nuclear advantage

Sam Roggeveen