Australia’s chance to get back in the conversation
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Chances are that the people at Free TV were quite relieved to hear that if Senator Penny Wong is Australia’s… Read More
2019
Myanmar: Pariah status no bar to defence modernisation
ANDREW SELTH | Despite criticisms, sanctions and embargoes, Myanmar is strengthening military ties with neighbours and friends. It has been more than two years since… Read More
One road, many questions
Even after last week’s intricately choreographed second global forum of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – to which Australia’s relationship remains unsettled – many… Read More
What’s stopping India and Pakistan from solving the Kashmir conflict?
Recent India–Pakistan border skirmishes have brought the dispute over Kashmir to the world’s attention once again. While the latest crisis has abated for now, the… Read More
Regional wrap
The last fortnight was marred by yet another man-made tragedy in this part of the world, a terrorist attack that claimed several hundred innocent… Read More
The global blight of populism threatens the world’s biggest democracy
Right-wing populism is on the rise across the globe. From Donald Trump in the United States to Matteo Salvini in Italy to Jair Bolsonaro in… Read More
Indian elections: It’s all about the economy, stupid!
Voting is now underway in the world’s largest democracy. With many of India’s rural farmers affected by the government’s mismanagement of the economy and the… Read More
Sustaining business succession plans in chaebols: The cases of Samsung and Hyundai
Plans to succeed businesses to the third generation have proven difficult for some founding families in South Korea. Such is the case for two of… Read More
Coal comfort: Australia-India ties after the elections
IAN HALL | In an odd quirk of timing, this year Australia and India’s elections will run in parallel. On 11 April, Scott Morrison… Read More
Mobilising Defence in the “fourth industrial revolution”
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s future wars may not run to our timetable. Our recent wars of choice have allowed participation as and when we wished. Read More
