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Australia needs to shore up development aid to match its reinforced engagement
Australia’s active global engagement on development and its focus on fragile small island states and disaster risk reduction are commendable. However successive cuts to...
Adventurers and travelers: Add Western Australia’s Kimberley to your list
Let your soul experience one of the most stunning and pristine places on earth, Western Australia’s Kimberley. Its coastline is so unspoiled, dinosaur footprints...
Australia’s commitment to affordable, secure and clean energy
Australia should rely on long-term policy and energy market responses to strengthen energy security, foster competition, and make the power sector more resilient, according...
Can Australia,offer an alternative narrative in the Indo-Pacific?
An excessively unpredictable and isolationist United States, under the US President Trump, whose transactionalism borders on being simplistic, has caused discomfort globally – even...
Can TPP be revived under APEC 2017 in Vietnam?
Authors: Do Quynh Anh & Bui Hong Hanh* The Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is the largest and most ambitious trade agreement in...
Is there a change Australia’s nuclear weapons position under Turnbull?
Since the early 1970s, Australian Governments have been strongly supportive of nuclear non-proliferation under the definitions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), signed by the...
Foreign Infiltration into the Australian Public Service
With Australia positioned uniquely in Asia but with its roots in the west, the government’s civil service – the Australian Public Service (APS) –...
Decriminalize Victims, please
T he 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is a key document that defines the term ‘refugee’, outlines rights for refugees,...
The Programmable Diplomatic Kill Switch
If indeed “War is a mere continuation of policy with other means” the metaphoric kill switches that have made their way into strategic...
Why Australia Should Be Worried by a Clinton Presidency
W ith the US presidential elections fast approaching, one American ally is facing an existential crisis. Worried about how best to balance its...