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), ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With US President Donald Trump’s administration pushing to quickly end the war in Ukraine, negotiations will remain a top priority for Washington. After talks between Trump and Ukrainian leader ...

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 ...