“This is going to be great television … I will say that.” This is how the American president summed up the conclusion of the most fractious meeting to have occurred in front of journalists between an ...

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), ...

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 ...

The launch of Waterworth, Meta’s sprawling 50,000-kilometre submarine cable system, longer than the Earth’s circumference, arrives cloaked in the language of progress. The use of 24 fibre pairs, far ...

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, ...

This morning at an International Women’s Day breakfast in Adelaide, Penny Wong was asked a simple, yet terrific question. It has indeed been quite a week. Suddenly there is talk about Australian ...

Global temperature records are being shattered with unsettling frequency. Last year, 2024, was the hottest year on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, reaching 1.6°C above ...

Lucy Klein is a former Australian Institute of International Affairs South Australia (AIIA SA) intern and an undergraduate student at the University of Adelaide (UofA) where she studies Sociology, ...

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 ...

Amid all the noise about Donald Trump’s evident alignment with Vladimir Putin, his administration having now paused all US military aid to Ukraine, some sympathetic commentators have claimed that ...

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 ...

If you’re looking to the United States for hints on how young Australian men will vote in the upcoming federal election, you might find yourself puzzled by their apparent shift towards conservatism.