More: Australia
Challenges in Oceania: the fight over Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
Oceania has discovered itself in the last 15 years as a newly appealing region for world powers. As a matter of fact, right after...
Is this high time for QUAD Plus Diplomacy?
On March 20, 2020, the Quadrilateral Dialogue (QUAD) member countries, including Australia, Japan, India, and the United States, met through a video conference for...
China’s Post-COVID strategy
In the aftermath of the covid19 pandemic, the increasingly belligerent behaviour exhibited by China in South Asia and South East Asia and China’s imposition...
Iron Fist for Pacific East
“Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation....
ABAC Release: Achieving Integration and Inclusion in the Age of Disruption
Business leaders from around the Asia-Pacific met in Sydney, Australia,
last week to discuss the year ahead, including engaging with APEC senior
officials on how best...
Why Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfire season was not normal, in three graphs
Data
from satellite sources assembled by the United Nations Environment Programme’s
(UNEP) World Environment
Situation Room confirms that the wildfires in Australia in the last two
months of...
Tipping Points in Australia’s Climate Change debates. Where to Now?
A record-breaking high summer came early to Australia in 2019. By October,
the daily weather map of the country was charting the rapid spread of
catastrophic...
The Fires of 2019–2020
Suddenly, sickeningly, the
consequences of climate change have hit gentle, populated South-Eastern
Australia. All up and down the usually well-watered Great Dividing Range, from
Western Victoria around...
Australia to Provide $14 Million, ADB $2 Million for Private Sector Initiative in the Pacific
The Government of Australia is providing $14 million in additional
funding to the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI), with the
Asian Development Bank (ADB) also...
How Australia is becoming China’s Australia
If it were not for China, Australia’s
population inroad scheme would take a serious hit. Out of more than 0.7 million
international students, more than 30%...