Australian membership in ASEAN is currently not possible. Australia’s dialogue partner relationship with ASEAN supports Australian policy autonomy and Australia’s engagement with Southeast Asia. The ...

US-led military operations against Iran – which began with a decapitation strike that killed the regime’s most senior leadership figures including Ayatollah Khamenei – will have far-reaching ...

There are no people for whom the impulses of both Washington and Beijing are more consequential than the Taiwanese. All the same, Taiwan and Taiwanese politics are more than a one-dimensional ...

Productivity is the holy grail of economic policy, and public concern about immigration is running hot. These two issues intersect in Australia’s rural labour market. Horticultural producers rely ...

For all the talk of alignment, Australia has no influence with North Korea, and South Korea has different interests with China. Despite these efforts, Australia has little real influence over North ...

For nearly three decades, the digital economy has operated on a US-designed model of cross-border data flows, platform immunity and innovation at scale. This model is under increasing strain. In a ...

Last week, France banned the US Ambassador Charles Kushner from accessing ministers after he failed to show up to a meeting to explain the US State Department’s public response to the killing of a far ...

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He has served as Chairman, World Board of Trustees Keren Hayesod-UIA (recipient of Ze’ev Jabotinsky award), a director of Scentre Group, Chairman of Football Federation Australia, President of the ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has travelled relentlessly since his inauguration in October 2024. Yet questions remain about the direction of Indonesian foreign policy under his leadership. How ...

Dr David Brewster is with the National Security College at the Australian National University, where he specialises in South Asian and Indian Ocean strategic affairs. He is also a Distinguished ...

Sam Roggeveen is Program Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program. He is the author of The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace, published by La Trobe ...