The United Nations General Assembly convenes its 80th session next week in New York. Yet the mood is far from celebratory, even for the International Day of Peace, as Sunday, 21 September is marked.

With the release of Australia’s landmark report on the effects of climate change this week, it is now more important than ever to build strategic and innovative climate policy. The National Climate ...

The 11th principle of war is personality, muses Brigadier Dean Thompson as we talk at an airbase in the Philippines. Relationships matter. Australia’s relationship with the Philippines has reached a ...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected in Papua New Guinea this weekend to sign an agreement clearing the way for PNG’s agricultural exports to enter the Chinese market. This step has already ...

Papua New Guinea and Australia didn’t sign a long anticipated Mutual Defence Treaty today. Instead, the prime ministers from both countries issued a last-minute communique, stating that the text had ...

As Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gears up to meet US President Donald Trump, a core objective must be to secure Trump’s backing for the AUKUS sub deal, while trying hard not to get into ...

As Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was about to call a national election on 28 March, a Chinese state-owned marine research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao was quietly transiting Bass Strait.

In February 2024, New Zealand’s national government explored an interest in joining AUKUS Pillar II, the strand of the Australia–UK–US security partnership responsible for the… Trump’s trade policy: ...

Max Uechtritz was a foreign correspondent then Director of News and Current Affairs at the ABC, Director of News of the Nine Network and Director of Programmes ...

It has been more than three years since the people of Bougainville voted to decide their political future. The 2019 referendum, that saw 97.7 per cent of voters express a desire for independence over ...

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been some of the most significant supporters of Ukraine following the invasion by Russia in February 2022, contributing the highest percentage ...