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Oceania

March 24, 2023
Ahead of UN Vote, Vanuatu Says: We Must Fight for Climate Justice
By Jotham Napat and Patricia Scotland
If we value human rights and the rule of law, then we must fight for climate justice, argue Vanuatu's foreign minister and the Commonwealth's secretary-general.

March 24, 2023
The AUKUS Partners Explain Their Phased Approach. What Are the Risks?
By Ankit Panda and Catherine Putz
The three partners have explained how the submarine cooperation initiative will move ahead. What are the risks?

March 23, 2023
What Are Australia’s Plans for the ‘Indigenous Voice’?
By Rod McGuirk
Australia is planning a constitutional referendum on creating an Indigenous Voice in Parliament, but the move has generated controversy.

March 22, 2023
Another Way to Look at AUKUS: Keeping the US Engaged in the Indo-Pacific
By Grant Wyeth
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.

March 20, 2023
New Zealand’s Middle East Strategy, 20 Years After the Iraq War
By Geoffrey Miller
Amid rapidly evolving diplomacy in the Middle East, the time might be right for New Zealand to take another look at Iraq.

March 16, 2023
Breach of Bail to Return as an Offense for Children in Queensland
By Dechlan Brennan
Queensland’s new crackdown on youth offenders will be “felt for generations,” experts warn.

March 16, 2023
Visionary Proposal or Pipe Dream? AUKUS Poses Challenges for Australia
By Corey Lee Bell and Elena Collinson
The impact of AUKUS is likely to be profoundly consequential across a wider purview of government, policy, economic structure, and national identity.

March 15, 2023
Scientists Say Climate Change Worsened Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand
By Seth Borenstein
“These are gigantic amounts of rainfall… I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that climate change has influenced the event.”

March 15, 2023
Leaping Into the Unknown: AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear Submarines
By Richard Maude
The plan announced on Monday is ambitious, massively expensive, and laden with risk far exceeding anything Australia has attempted before.

March 14, 2023
Australia Says Nuclear Subs Needed to Counter Militarization
By Associated Press
Prime Minister Albanese called the AUKUS deal “the biggest single investment in Australia’s defense capability in all of our history.”

March 14, 2023
Helping a Friend: Looking Back on Australia’s Intervention in Solomon Islands
By Catherine Putz
An interview with Michael Wesley about his history of Australia and the international intervention Canberra led in the Solomon Islands.

March 13, 2023
Innovative Solutions Needed for Indian Community Tensions in Australia
By Grant Wyeth
Left unchecked, tensions, which have sparked vandalism of Hindu temples and attacks on Sikhs, have the potential to poison the Australia-India bilateral relationship.
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