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Grant Wyeth

Grant Wyeth is a Melbourne-based political analyst specializing in Australia and the Pacific, India and Canada.

Alongside his work for The Diplomat, his analysis has also been published by a range of outlets including Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, The Lowy Interpreter, EU Observer, Melbourne Asia Review, Inside Story and foreign affairs publications attached to Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

He is formerly an academic researcher at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, and previously wrote the weekly newsletter for Australian Foreign Affairs magazine. Presently he is an editor at Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue. and writes a weekly newsletter and periodic essays on his Substack: International Blue.

Grant holds a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) from La Trobe University, and a Master of International Relations from the University of Melbourne.

He tweets @grantwyeth

Posts by Grant Wyeth

January 31, 2024

Finding Australia in K-Pop

By Grant Wyeth

Soft power circulates, with South Korea’s K-Pop influencing Australia at the same time Australia's self-image as an Asian country continues to evolve.

January 29, 2024

Australia Day: A National Impasse

By Grant Wyeth

Maybe Australia should stop trying to find symbolic worth in the past and instead focus on what kind of country it wants to be in the future.

January 10, 2024

Watching Taiwan’s Election Through Australia’s Eyes

By Grant Wyeth

What is most important to Australia is that the status quo is maintained across the Taiwan Strait.

December 27, 2023

Why Australia Isn’t Sending a Ship to the Red Sea

By Grant Wyeth

In rejecting a request to send a vessel to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, a U.S.-led military operation, Canberra has made a calculation that its focus needs to be closer to home.

December 19, 2023

Out of the Blue: Rising to the Challenges of Australia’s Maritime Security

By Tom Bamforth, Tom Barber, and Grant Wyeth

Australia has an opportunity to play a more proactive role in coordinating a regional framework to address security concerns across numerous domains.

December 18, 2023

Australia’s New Migration Strategy

By Grant Wyeth

Australia aims to shift the overall character of its migration system away from temporary migration and toward permanent residence and citizenship.

November 30, 2023

India: Time to Put the Pacific in Indo-Pacific

By Grant Wyeth

Reaching further out into the Pacific demonstrates New Delhi’s strategic intent on being a balancing actor, but also an important power in its own right.

November 27, 2023

Australia-Philippines Launch Joint Naval Patrol in South China Sea

By Grant Wyeth

The recent joint patrol is another sign that Beijing's attempts at intimidation in will not be submitted to – not by the Philippines and not by Australia.

November 16, 2023

Australia and Tuvalu: The Complexities of Climate Refuge

By Grant Wyeth

While the new security agreement is built on unfortunate resignation about Tuvalu’s future, serious action on climate change has the ability to arrest its most brutal consequences.

October 31, 2023

In Australia, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Appeals to Shared Values

By Grant Wyeth

Although the Australian government avoided any direct contact with the foreign minister, it undoubtedly paid close attention to what he said at a talk this week in Melbourne.

October 30, 2023

Faith and Foreign Policy: How the Pacific Views the Israel-Gaza Conflict

By Grant Wyeth

Of the 14 states that voted against a recent U.N. resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza, six were Pacific Island states. What explains their votes?

October 16, 2023

Australia Shirks Responsibility to Indigenous Communities With Rejected Voice Referendum

By Grant Wyeth

Rather than understand the responsibility Australia has for its Indigenous population, both the Liberal and National parties sensed political opportunity in opposing the Voice.