25 Mar 2019 15:00
The Mueller illusion
What the long investigation has really exposed is more of the same old politics at play.
Long reads
25 Mar 2019 13:30
Film Review: The Wandering Earth
The film makes us think about the way in which civilisational differences can lead to new forms of artistic expression.
25 Mar 2019 10:00
Reset required for DFAT-AusAID integration
The promised magic to align aid with interests hasn’t actually materialised as power has shifted from the old aid club.
25 Mar 2019 6:00
The “satellite clause” for North Korea’s rockets
If North Korea does launch another satellite, will this really be an act to cover another missile test?
22 Mar 2019 14:00
Australia–India ties: closing the gap between intent and action
The potential of this relationship is often overshadowed by a severe lack of enthusiasm and episodes of prejudice.
22 Mar 2019 12:00
Australia’s PNG gateway: far north Queensland
The far-north will be key to closer cross-border ties and Cairns hosted the Australia-PNG Emerging Leadership Dialogue.
22 Mar 2019 10:00
The sudden interest in Modern Monetary Theory
It’s often said there is no such thing as a free lunch, and issuing cash is not a limitless source of funding.
22 Mar 2019 6:00
Christchurch enters a nightmare peculiar to our times
A different kind of monster stalks our age, but the public still has a choice whether to submit to his wickedness.
21 Mar 2019 16:00
Who bears responsibility for the Children of ISIS?
There are 70 Australian minors affiliated with ISIS in Syria. Yet there is no policy or direction on repatriation.
4 Mar 2019 12:30
Breaking Russia’s space stranglehold
America’s new spacecraft represents a significant strategic shift in space.
11 Mar 2019 13:00
An Australian model for the renewable-energy transition
Australia is on track for deep and rapid greenhouse emissions reductions. Most countries can follow the same path.
1 Mar 2019 11:00
How Assad’s Tehran trip exposed political rifts in Iran
The visit by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad carried far deeper meaning in the tension between Iran’s hardliners and moderates.
1 Mar 2019 14:00
India’s wobbly quest for fighter aircraft
Ambitions to increase India’s fighter squadrons face complications in local manufacturing, as well the role intended.
28 Feb 2019 6:00
Sovereignty for citizenship might help the Pacific
You can’t eat sovereignty, you can’t drink independence, and you can’t build a house in the middle of the ocean.
8 Mar 2019 14:00
The long struggle of the women’s movement in Indonesian politics
The lost history of Indonesian women in politics is slowly emerging, but the obstacles to participation are many.
4 Mar 2019 10:30
Four reasons why China supports North Korea
China’s policy on the Korean peninsula is based on geopolitical calculus. Its support of North Korea will stay intact.
1 Mar 2019 9:30
Kim-Trump 2.0: three observations
Hanoi marks the moment when Washington learned to stop worrying about North Korea’s bomb.
28 Feb 2019 15:00
Economic diplomacy: Development aid in the Belt & Road era
As the DFAT/Ausaid merger recedes in the rear vision mirror for Australia, China talks up scrutiny for bad projects.
16 Jan 2019 16:00
Timor-Leste’s forgotten Chinese
The Chinese-Timorese community face discrimination and stereotypes in the country they’ve long called home.
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13 Dec 2018 17:00
What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
Foreign influence helped scupper a bid to be the first Asian nation to formally legalise gay marriage.
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21 Nov 2018 16:00
Timor-Leste: refining agreements in the Greater Sunrise
Timor-Leste’s sees a purchase of US energy group ConocoPhilips’s stake in Greater Sunrise as a “seat at the table”.
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2 Nov 2018 6:00
Yemen, Khashoggi, and the deadly Saudi trade
No one denies Western weapons are used in Yemen but it took a journalist’s death to focus on arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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31 Oct 2018 10:30
Caught in the net: slavery on Southeast Asian seas
The seafood you bought from your local market could have been caught by a slave.
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16 Oct 2018 6:00
The corridor of power
The remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan was central to the Silk Road, Great Game, and Cold War – now China has plans.
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11 Oct 2018 14:15
Facing ghosts of the past in Bougainville
Post-war justice has been elusive, but until grievances are confronted, the consequences of impunity can be deadly.
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6 Sep 2018 14:30
China’s tech bubble
As debts mount and liquidity begins to dry up, it will soon become clear how much the growth of tech start-ups was fact.
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17 Aug 2018 14:30
Electric vehicles and industrial policy
A dramatic shift in the global automotive market sees electric vehicles, once viewed as toys, gaining momentum.
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