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Australian Defense Minister’s India Trip: A Sign of Growing Defense Ties
By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Canberra and New Delhi need to streamline their defense and security agenda on an accelerated pace in the face of pressure on both from Beijing.
Australian FM Embarks on Trip to Vietnam, Malaysia
By Sebastian Strangio
Penny Wong's trip is her second to Southeast Asia in the month since she took up the foreign affairs portfolio.
Australia and South Korea: Resetting Middle Power Ambitions
By Peter K. Lee and Sarah Teo
It is worth assessing if and how two of the Indo-Pacific’s most prominent middle powers might once again pursue creative and ambitious statecraft.
Trilateral – Not Quad – Is the Best Chance for Indo-Pacific Defense
By Hayley Channer
The Australia-Japan-U.S. trilateral is older and more formalized than the Quad – and unlike the latter, it explicitly embraces a defense mandate.
Japan, Australia to Expand Defense Ties, Citing Concerns About Regional Order
By Mari Yamaguchi
The two countries’ defense ministers pledged to boost ties, including working more closely in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
China’s Pacific Push Is Already Remaking the Region
By Patricia O’Brien
After a whirlwind of visits and agreements, where does the Pacific region stand?
China’s Envoy to Australia Says 2 Nations at ‘New Juncture’
By Rod McGuirk
After the first minister-to-minister talks in more than two years, China says the bilateral relationship with Australia faces new opportunities.
The Big Problem With Labor’s ‘Plan to Build a Stronger Pacific Family’
By Corey Lee Bell
The Pacific Islands are not interested in being Australia’s – or China’s – “little brothers.”
NASA to Launch from Australia’s Northern Territory
By Philip Citowicki
The move could expand the frontiers of space exploration, and enhance Australia's ability to carry out missions of its own.
Anthony Albanese Must Be More Than a National Security Prime Minister
By Philipp Ivanov
The challenges facing Australia are formidable. To navigate them we must accept our place at the heart of a shared region.
Australia’s New Government Faces an Economic Trial-by-Fire
By Anthony Fensom
Keeping the economic sunshine shining amid growing global tensions and rising inflation, without blowing out the budget, will provide a tough test for the Albanese government.
The Forgotten, Quiet, Battlers: Who Are The Real Australians?
By Grant Wyeth
If the Liberal Party wants to find its way back to government it needs to abandon the attempt to define an “authentic” class of Australians, and instead simply see people as people.