Art as diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region
CAITLIN BYRNE | An ongoing aim in Australian diplomacy is to deepen the nation’s engagement with the dynamism and diversity of the Asia… Read More
Region | Australia
Only a truly national security strategy can forestall disaster
PETER LAYTON | There is much talk of war drums beating, China battles and military deployments to North East Asia. Such… Read More
Australia’s scrapping of Antarctic aerodrome could pave the runway for China
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN | While environmentalists have welcomed the Australian government’s decision to abandon the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica, China is likely now drafting… Read More
As Australia deploys troops and police, what now for Solomon Islands?
TESS NEWTON CAIN | On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia would deploy police, diplomats and defence force personnel to Solomon… Read More
Uptight and uncomfortable
RENÉE JEFFERY | Human rights occupy a curiously uncomfortable place in Australian foreign policy. Like liberal democracies the world over, Australia’s foreign policy… Read More
What is COP26 and why does the fate of Earth, and Australia’s prosperity, depend on it?
WESLEY MORGAN | In just over two weeks, more than 100 world leaders will gather in the Scottish industrial city of Glasgow for… Read More
Explainer: What exactly is the Quad and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit?
IAN HALL | On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US met in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit. Read More
Matching strategic and defence policy to the climate challenge
BRENDAN SARGEANT | Australia is experiencing a series of cascading crises. While the most immediate is the Covid-19 pandemic, the global and regional strategic… Read More
Advancing foreign investment in APEC
TONY MAKIN | Since the early 1990s, international trade growth has persistently eclipsed foreign investment growth in the Asia-Pacific. Over this time Asia-Pacific… Read More
A culture of insecurity
MARK BEESON | It’s not too controversial to suggest that the global environment isn’t in great shape, or even that it may never be… Read More
