Ian Hall

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

Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election

IAN HALL | Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going… Read More

India elections: who are Narendra Modi’s main rivals – and can they beat him?

IAN HALL | India is heading to the polls in the world’s biggest democratic election and a number of different figures could emerge as India’s… Read More

Trump, Modi and their Religious Right

IAN HALL | Much divides Donald J Trump and Narendra Modi, but there are similarities between the two leaders and their politics beyond their… Read More

Pulwama terrorist attack: Modi under pressure

IAN HALL | The Pulwama attack was clearly calibrated to pile pressure on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to the general… Read More

Steady but slow in Australia-Japan security cooperation

IAN HALL AND MICHAEL HEAZLE | Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent visit to Darwin was rightly billed as historic and “… Read More

The case for a free and open Indo-Pacific

IAN HALL | Well before Trump became president, the US’s long-established China policy – a combination of engagement and deterrence sometimes called ‘congagement’ –… Read More

After Marawi: Advancing Australia–Philippines strategic relations

IAN HALL | Last week, the Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation and the Griffith Asia Institute co-hosted a Philippines–Australia… Read More

Modi plays by the “rules” at Shangri-La

IAN HALL | Sometimes what politicians don’t say is as important as what they do say. So it was with Prime Minister of India… Read More

Debating China’s influence in Australia

IAN HALL | Stories of attempts by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to influence Australia’s political processes, gather intelligence, or simply intrude into… Read More


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