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.
Long reads
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.
21 Mar 2019 13:30
Australia-Turkey: Erdogan’s bitter legacy in present-day history
The intemperate outburst over Christchurch is more a product of Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
21 Mar 2019 12:00
Indonesia: look beyond quotas for gender representation
Gender quotas are a popular means of affirmative action but the number of female parliamentarians remains meagre.
21 Mar 2019 6:00
Getting the right data is step one to address Pacific problems
Much of the information needed to tackle regional challenges already exists – gathering this data is key.
20 Mar 2019 16:00
Rahul Gandhi: a reluctant leader’s bid to topple India’s Modi
He’s hoping to pull off a miracle but the Congress Party’s promotion of Priyanka Gandhi could betray a weakness.
20 Mar 2019 15:00
The K-Pop sex and drugs scandal sweeping South Korea
It started with Big Bang and has spiralled into an ever-widening controversy, with privilege and misogyny at the heart.
20 Mar 2019 11:30
Aid links: cyclones, “confusopoly”, collaboration, more
Links and stories from the aid and development sector.
20 Mar 2019 10:00
Why reciprocity matters: the US Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act
China’s days of treating the US as a peer and expecting special treatment at the same time appear to be running out.
4 Mar 2019 12:30
Breaking Russia’s space stranglehold
America’s new spacecraft represents a significant strategic shift in space.
22 Feb 2019 16:00
The botched Amazon deal and its importance for 2020 US elections
The Amazon case highlights tensions between the progressive young guns and moderate older guard in American politics.
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.
22 Feb 2019 13:30
The new Middle Eastern space race
Israel’s mission to the moon is indicative of a trend where spaceflight in the Middle East is linked to politics.
22 Feb 2019 17:30
Trouble in Munich: the transatlantic breakup
Europe and America read from diverging scripts at the annual strategic confab, the Munich Security Conference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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