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  • 24 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Australian Development Assistance

    The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
    The White Paper diminishes and stifles Australia's international development story.
  • 23 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Foreign Policy White Paper: Turnbull addresses the China problem

    Sam Roggeveen
    Turnbull's remarks were anything but bland and innocuous.
  • 23 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Diplomacy

    Foreign Policy White Paper: Australia faces an uncertain world

    Daniel Flitton
    The obvious headline on China and US rivalry only masks a deeper unease captured by the Foreign Policy White Paper.
  • 22 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Australia’s citizenship saga projects an insular image

    Grant Wyeth
    How a country judges itself is the basis for international relations.
  • 22 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Pacific Islands

    A manifesto to build Australia’s Pacific connection

    Jonathan Pryke
    Labor's Richard Marles has clear passion for the Pacific. Here's how to make it practical.
  • 17 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Same-sex marriage: What Ireland’s yes vote shows Australia

    Ruth Adler
    The Australian government can point to the experience in Ireland to soothe the inevitable challenges.
  • 15 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Same-sex marriage survey: Gen Y got involved and the pollsters got it right

    Alex Oliver
    A voluntary process did not stop young Australians participating.
  • 8 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Seven traps for Turnbull this Asian summit season

    Susan Harris Rimmer
    A high degree of diplomatic difficulty awaits as Australia debates its foreign policy future.
  • 3 Nov 2017
    • Australia in the World

    A true blue Facebook nation anxious about cyberspace

    Danielle Cave
    Australians are obsessed with cyberspace but wary of the consequences.
  • 30 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Turnbull's travels won't quarantine him from domestic strife

    Daniel Flitton
    Domestic politics has a pesky habit of interrupting foreign relationships.
  • 13 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Australia must criticise US withdrawal from UNESCO

    Greg Colton
    US should be reminded that leaving UNESCO is counter to Australian values.
  • 11 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • China
    • Taiwan

    Australia’s One-China Policy and why it matters

    Mark Harrison
    Australia's One-China Policy requires a familiarity with China's modern and classical history.
  • 10 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • North Korea

    A modest proposal for Australian engagement in North Korea

    Euan Graham
    The North Koreans may very well say no. But there's little harm in trying.
  • 6 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Defence & Security

    Fuel security: Why the RAN should prioritise the Indo-Pacific

    Greg Colton
    There are many factors that can comprise the national interest. Fuel security should be at the top of the list.
  • 5 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy

    Anti-migration sentiment the chief threat to openness

    John Edwards
    Muslims are certainly a target for Senator Hanson, but I’ve little doubt their integration into Australian society is proceeding in much the same way as past waves of migration.
  • 5 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Technology, transparency and coordination in aid delivery

    Alexandre Dayant
    Australia won’t be a leader when it comes to the volume of aid any time soon. But it can lead by example in other ways.
  • 4 Oct 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Cyber Security

    A regional focus on cyber security

    Tobias Feakin
    Australia will work with international partners and the private sector to shut down cybercrime safe havens and improve our neighbours' cyber resilience.
  • 19 Sep 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Alfred Deakin and the roots of Australian foreign policy

    Judith Brett
    To Deakin, The fault line in Australia’s relations with Great Britain was apparent as early as the 1880s.
  • 14 Sep 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Philippines

    A test for Australia in Marawi

    Olivia Shen
    Australia’s role in Mindanao post-Marawi is a litmus test of its willingness and ability to do more in the neighbourhood to safeguard its interests.
  • 14 Aug 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Asia and Pacific
    • North Korea
    • South Korea

    Australia and Korea’s wars

    Andrew Selth
    If there is another armed conflict on the Korean peninsula, it's unlikely an Australian government would feel bound by historical precedent or outdated legal instruments.
  • 4 Aug 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Diplomacy

    NBN dysfunction threatens our international reputation

    Alex Oliver
    If businesses and other aspiring innovators have inadequate connectivity to global communication systems, innovation initiatives are dead on arrival.
  • 3 Aug 2017
    • Australia in the World

    DFAT turns 30: Foreign Affairs and Trade still stronger together

    Joanna Hewitt
    DFAT is the only mega department to have retained almost all of its 1987 functions intact.
  • 28 Jul 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Europe
    • Foreign Policy

    Boris Johnson: Three cheers for the Anglosphere

    Richard Alston
    Johnson was quick to quote his political idol Winston Churchill in lauding the 'special genius of the English-speaking peoples'.
  • 20 Jul 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Our parliamentarians should be Australian-only

    Rodger Shanahan
    Australia being a multicultural country does not obligate its parliament to be a multinational legislature.
  • 16 Jul 2017
    • Australia in the World

    An Australian Space Agency: Will History Repeat?

    Morris Jones
    Australia has punched well below its weight in space for decades.
  • 27 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • China

    Media scrutiny of China is critical for Australia

    John Fitzgerald
    Australia could well change in fundamental ways if it moved to accommodate China’s growing power without regard to questions of value, integrity and public trust.
  • 23 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    A revived Quad won't help Australia

    Greg Raymond
    Australia has a perfect right to form associations, groupings, dialogues and alliances with whomever it chooses. But wise statecraft does not deal only with entitlements and rights.
  • 21 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria

    RAAF’s decision on Syria raises more questions than it answers

    Greg Colton
    The announcement yesterday implies that Australia has decided it no longer has the political will to apply air power in the fight against ISIS in Syria.
  • 8 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Getting migration right when government is no longer in sole control

    Henry Sherrell
    Multinational businesses, universities and the science community have all failed to properly explain the role skilled migrants play in their organisations today.
  • 2 Jun 2017
    • Australia in the World

    How Australia can help keep the peace in the Arctic

    William Stoltz
    The Arctic will be the next big test of UNCLOS with competing sovereignty claims already apparent.
  • 31 May 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • United States

    Nuclear ban treaty progresses, despite US-led objections

    Tim Wright
    Should Australia join this treaty, it would need to end its claimed reliance on the US nuclear umbrella.
  • 31 May 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Fear of abandonment: A dialogue on Australian foreign policy, past and future

    Allan Gyngell , Sam Roggeveen
    The overall story of Australian foreign policy is pretty positive. But there's no doubt we dragged our feet at various stages.
  • 23 May 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Middle East
    • United States

    Why Trump’s Middle East trip matters to Australia

    Anthony Bubalo
    Regardless of whether Australian forces are enlisted in any anti-Iran campaign, there is a risk that our troops, aircraft or ships in the Middle East may find themselves targeted in any Iranian retaliation.
  • 1 May 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Where India fits in an activist Australian foreign policy

    James Curran
    Australia’s regional engagement in the years ahead can never be conceived within the US/China framework alone.
  • 26 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    India remains cautious about the 'quad'

    Abhijit Singh
    Indian policymakers still shy away from a grand maritime alliance in the Indo-Pacific.
  • 10 Apr 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Turnbull’s India visit an opportunity to revive the Quad

    Lavina Lee
    Even if it was ahead of its time in 2007, the contemporary strategic logic of reviving the Quad is compelling.
  • 21 Mar 2017
    • Australia in the World

    The values conundrum in Australia's foreign policy

    John McCarthy
    Values play a proportionately larger part in the conceptualisation and practice of Australian foreign policy than is the case in most other Western democracies
  • 17 Mar 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Why aren’t Australia and Vietnam strategic partners?

    Carlyle Thayer
    It is time for Australia to pick up some of the slack regionally as the Trump Administration pursues an America First policy. The time is right to advance bilateral relations to a strategic partnership level.
  • 8 Feb 2017
    • Australia in the World

    Let’s talk about Darwin: Australia, South Korea, and US basing

    Andrew Kwon
    South Korea has persisted with US basing despite decades of fluctuating public opinion and dark periods in the bilateral relationship.
  • 27 Jan 2017
    • Australia in the World
    • Pacific Islands

    No. 1 Neighbour: How culture binds Australia & PNG

    Jonathan Pryke , Anna Kirk
    In Iate 2017 the fourth annual Australia-PNG Emerging Leaders Dialogue took place at the Queensland Art Gallery.
  • 4 Nov 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • The Americas

    Should Australia be more like Canada?

    Mike Callaghan
    When it comes to a comparison of economic performance, Australia comes out ahead of Canada.
  • 31 Oct 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Australia's marriage-equality debate reverberates through the Pacific

    As the LGBTQ+ community in Australia continues the struggle for marriage equality, some are asking what impact this will have for our neighbours, especially in nations which still criminalise homosexuality.
  • 28 Oct 2016
    • Asia
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • China's Economy
    • Australia and Asia

    Barnaby Joyce's mixed messaging on property rights

    James Laurenceson
    Joyce made headlines this week for criticising Labor on vegetation management and land clearing, but welcomed Morrison's decision to prevent the Kidman sale.
  • 28 Oct 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Gillard and Clinton: The pull of an old friendship

    Geoff Kitney
    Clinton is said to have been impressed, in the time that Gillard was Australian Prime Minister, with her toughness on policy issues.
  • 1 Jul 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • South China Sea
    • Australia
    • China

    Both Coalition and Labor weak on South China Sea freedom of navigation

    Benjamin Herscovitch
    Beyond aid spending and asylum seekers, foreign policy rarely rates a mention in Australian election campaigns.
  • 24 May 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • India

    Australia and India don't see eye to eye on the Indo-Pacific

    Darshana Baruah
  • 24 Feb 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    Turnbull Government adrift on ambiguous South China Sea rhetoric

    Stephen Conroy
  • 4 Feb 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    We should think carefully about an Australian FONOP in the South China Sea

    Nick Bisley
  • 22 Jan 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • South China Sea
    • Australia and Asia

    Five ways Australian politicians could do some good on the South China Sea

    Greg Raymond
  • 18 Dec 2013
    • Australia in the World
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy

    Spying on Kristiani Herawati: A loss of judgement

    Stephen Grenville
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