Oceania

The three partners have explained how the submarine cooperation initiative will move ahead. What are the risks?

Australia is planning a constitutional referendum on creating an Indigenous Voice in Parliament, but the move has generated controversy.

Beyond responding to the China threat, AUKUS is also a tool to maintain U.S. Indo-Pacific engagement through whatever domestic storms are to come in Washington.

Amid rapidly evolving diplomacy in the Middle East, the time might be right for New Zealand to take another look at Iraq.

Queensland’s new crackdown on youth offenders will be “felt for generations,” experts warn.

The impact of AUKUS is likely to be profoundly consequential across a wider purview of government, policy, economic structure, and national identity.

“These are gigantic amounts of rainfall… I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that climate change has influenced the event.”

The plan announced on Monday is ambitious, massively expensive, and laden with risk far exceeding anything Australia has attempted before. 

Prime Minister Albanese called the AUKUS deal “the biggest single investment in Australia’s defense capability in all of our history.”

An interview with Michael Wesley about his history of Australia and the international intervention Canberra led in the Solomon Islands.

Left unchecked, tensions, which have sparked vandalism of Hindu temples and attacks on Sikhs, have the potential to poison the Australia-India bilateral relationship.