Region | Australia

The case for automated airbases in a post-pandemic Australia

A post-pandemic Australia with a smaller national workforce would increase the pressure on the ADF to embrace automation at its airbases. The possibility that the post-Covid-19 era will leave us with fewer people makes airbase digital transformation essential. Read More

Future defence national mobilisations and COVID-19

National mobilisation, the purposeful use of society’s resources to defend Australia and its interests, has been prominent in the managing of the 2020 pandemic. A deep analysis of this is a post-COVID-19 task but some matters relevant to thinking about future defence national mobilisations are already evident explains Griffith University’s Dr Peter Layton. Read More

Australians open their homes to international students left destitute by the coronavirus shutdown

Thousands of international students in Australia have been left without work and government support during the coronavirus crisis. Many will at least be offered a welcoming home thanks to hundreds of generous Australians. Read More

Regional wrap

Griffith Asia Institute, Regional Wrap by Aakritit Bachhawat. Aus takes principled stand against Chinese economic coercion US leads push to restructure global supply chains India-Aus plan 'virtual' bilateral summit Read More

Can technology help Australians ‘get back to normal’ while maintaining social distancing?

After the covidsafe app was released yesterday, more than a million Australians downloaded the app. Can technology help Australians ‘get back to normal’ while maintaining social distancing? Read More

Regional wrap

US passes Taipei Act -China's fresh adventurism in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait- India's lockdown threatens a humanitarian crisis Read More

The battle begins for the shape of the post-COVID world

In this feature essay, Griffith Asia Institute Industry Fellow Rowan Callick provides a roadmap to the more cogent sources of analysis and sets out early insights into what the post-COVID-19 world might look like, particularly from Australia’s vantage point in the Indo-Pacific. Read More

COVID-19 responses: Why feminist leadership matters in a crisis

Gender equality is not just for good times, it matters in a crisis. Susan Harris Rimmer and Elise Stephenson on Covid19 Read More

Part 3 | Indian Ocean Air Power: Consequences for Australia

Peter Layton turns his attention to the importance of Australian air power in the region. Though the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is a small force, there is more to Australia’s potential contribution to the region than the aircraft it operates. Read More

Regional wrap

The past fortnight drove home the rather surreal realisation that we’re living in unprecedented times. Never before, at least in the living memory of today’s… Read More