Southeast Asia snapshot #57
SOVINDA PO | The political situation in Myanmar as of 16 August 2023 Recently, the military junta has extended the country’s state of… Read More
Commentary
Strategic denial and Australia’s Pacific mindset
This is the first in a three-part series in which GAI Industry fellow Ian Kemish AM explores the history of Australia’s public mindset towards the Pacific. Read More
The AUKUS deal will be hotly debated at the ALP national conference, but its real vulnerabilities lie in America
MATTHEW SUSSEX | This year’s ALP national conference, beginning August 17, promises to be somewhat feistier than its recent COVID-affected (and boring) predecessors. Yet… Read More
Privatising Poverty Series Part 8: New Democrats
RON BEVACQUA | Left-leaning neo-liberals rose to power just as new ideas about economic development and poverty reduction emerged. Old-style New Deal democrats… Read More
The dangerous ‘cocktail’ of politics and business in Bangladesh
REZA MONEM | Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its next parliamentary election by January 2024. While the opposition parties led by Bangladesh Nationalist… Read More
Breaking boundaries to reimagine space is crucial
SARAH FURMAN AND ELISE STEPHENSON | The Deputy Head of NASA, Pam Melroy, was clear in telling her Australian audience in early… Read More
Are Western intelligence agencies “fuelling an armed rebellion” in Myanmar?
ANDREW SELTH | For decades, Myanmar’s generals have been convinced that they are under attack from foreign intelligence agencies, which they believe operate… Read More
The latest risk: the intelligence sector’s stifling lack of diversity?
ELISE STEPHENSON AND SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER | In recent years, many global intelligence agencies are turning their eye inward with major reforms,… Read More
Putting PNG’s police shortage on the agenda
SEAN JACOBS | A recent string of gruesome kidnappings of young women in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands have highlighted not only the persistent… Read More
Southeast Asia snapshot #56
SOVINDA PO | Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announces resignation In a landmark announcement on 26 July 2023, Cambodia’s Prime Minister (PM) Hun… Read More
