Defence analyst Marcus Hellyer talks with the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen about the unprecedented appearance of Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast. What message was Beijing sending? How ...

A special Interpreter series ahead of International Women’s Day, 2025, on 8 March. Just two weeks later, at the unveiling of the Australia-Southeast Asia Regional Development Partnership Plan (DPP), ...

A common Australian critique of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is that their conduct is unsafe and unprofessional. That includes air and sea interactions between the PLA and the RAN/RAAF in the ...

China has sent Australia a message in recent days about the strength of its rapidly growing naval fleet, already the largest in the world by numbers. But the reaction in Australia to the flotilla of ...

The past few weeks have been a maelstrom for geopolitics. The Oval Office meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shocked the world. However, two events in the past 48 hours ...

For many scholars of international relations, the orthodoxy of the realist approach – much like “market–based” approaches in economics – has created a mistaken belief that the play-off of interests, ...

In 2015, when then Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced an additional week of paid leave for fathers during a National Day Rally speech, he jested, “Do not go and play golf, please use ...

India–Bangladesh ties, once hailed as a “model for bilateral relations for the entire region”, have declined rapidly since former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August last ...

Australia’s vulnerability to maritime trade disruption is well recognised. International shipping moves some 99 per cent of the nation’s traded goods by volume worth A$755 billion in 2021, and ...

With US aid disappearing, a new report shows Australia has a chance to align development cooperation with the region’s challenges and Australia’s strengths. Stay informed with the latest commentary ...

The appalling exchange between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump was a wake-up call to all leaders, whichever side they took. Homework is required. Now more than ever, leaders need to ...

Foreign aid is set to be slashed in the United States, jeopardising lives, and throwing global programs into turmoil. With the United Kingdom now following suit and an Australian federal election on ...