21 Jan 2019 6:00
Australia articulates its Indian Ocean priorities
Payne emphasised that it is in Australia’s vital national interest for the Indian Ocean to remain open and peaceful.
Long reads
18 Jan 2019 13:30
Syria: emerging consequences of the US withdrawal
Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria has actors scrambling to make sense of the ramifications.
18 Jan 2019 10:00
Book Review: the Clinton fiction
Clinton’s book has nothing new to say about politics but it may offer some insight into his assessment of the world.
18 Jan 2019 6:00
Brexit: British people vote with their feet
The potential appeal of Ireland post-Brexit has seen business headquarters leave London and passport applications surge.
17 Jan 2019 14:30
Economic diplomacy: A new year of trade rows & development strife
It’s back ... more debate over TPP membership, plus a hint why Kim quit, and the AIIB goes green.
17 Jan 2019 12:00
Indonesia’s elections: identity politics and olive branches
Is the reality of Indonesia’s politics forcing a hardliner to become more moderate?
17 Jan 2019 6:00
Why China’s financial system remains closed
Large scale liberalisation of a financial system created by a decade-long credit binge would be reckless.
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.
16 Jan 2019 15:00
Brexit barneys and three big questions
The rejection of May’s Brexit deal has Daniel Flitton speaking to Philomena Murray to help make sense of the moment.
2 Jan 2019 7:00
Best of The Interpreter 2018: Forgotten corners of the world
Read this year's best Interpreter pieces on some of the most interesting but often overlooked parts of the world.
31 Dec 2018 7:00
Best of The Interpreter 2018: The US-China trade war
The two largest economies in the world have spent the year exchanging threats of retaliatory tariffs.
11 Jan 2019 11:00
“The whales have won” – even as Japan sharpens its harpoons
Japan’s withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission may counterintuitively offer hope to conservation efforts.
3 Jan 2019 7:00
Best of The Interpreter 2018: Khashoggi, Skripal, deaths & duels
Read the best Interpreter pieces on the grim revival of state sanctioned assassinations. Allegedly.
8 Jan 2019 10:00
The rude health of Cambodia’s Hun Sen
Speculation about succession by Hun Sen’s eldest son is an interesting talking point – that could go on a while yet.
4 Jan 2019 7:00
Best of The Interpreter 2018: Talking with Kim Jong-un
This was a year of extraordinary diplomacy on the Korean peninsula, summitry and circuses.
10 Jan 2019 14:00
International broadcasting: the ABC vs the wisdom of the crowd
An incoming Australian government should review and rethink the purpose of state-funded international broadcasting.
9 Jan 2019 9:30
Jim Kim quits the World Bank, an unexpected gift to Donald Trump
If he chooses, Trump now has the opportunity to push the Bank towards a more conservative global agenda.
7 Jan 2019 15:00
How to save one million lives, and then millions more
Climate change is a health crisis: meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement would save lives.
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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6 Aug 2018 15:00
International broadcasting: not so simple as ABC
Australia’s future international public broadcasting should be placed in the hands of a new independent body.
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25 Jul 2018 15:30
Trump and the rebirth of satire
When Nazis proudly march in America’s southern cities, do we really need comedians to point out how bad people can be?
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19 Jul 2018 12:00
“Poor old” China meets “poor young” Africa
Population ageing in China opens a new window for African development – and the wider world should pay attention, too.
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