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A Year After AUKUS, What Challenges Loom Largest?
By Grant Wyeth
From Indonesian concerns to possible overreliance on an unpredictable U.S., Australia’s nuclear submarine ambitions present plenty of challenges.
Australia-Japan Relations: No Hostage to War Memory
By Shaun O'Dwyer
In the long term, reconciliation efforts and growing commercial relations with Japan helped dim bitter Pacific War memories in Australia.
Fixing Australia’s Labor Shortage
By Grant Wyeth
Enhancing the skills and opportunities for each individual person in Australia – as well as those who wish to make Australia their home – is the bedrock on which Australia’s security is built.
With Secret Self-Appointments, Morrison Torched Australia’s Democracy
By Patricia O’Brien
The wider reckoning about Morrison’s misdeeds, and how he came to rise to the heights of power in the first place, is going to be deeply uncomfortable.
Why Fixing Australia’s Housing Crisis Should Be a National Priority
By Grant Wyeth
Sydney has the second least affordable housing market in the world, and it’s not much better elsewhere in the country.
How Australia Can Help Sri Lanka
By Grant Wyeth
If the northeast Indian Ocean is of strategic interest to Australia, then the current economic and political crisis in Sri Lanka ought to be a pressing concern for Canberra.
Australia Drops Charge Against Lawyer Over Timor-Leste Spying Claim
By Rod McGuirk
The previous conservative government approved in 2018 the prosecution of Bernard Collaery and his client, a former spy publicly known as Witness K.
Indian Australians Fastest Growing Group in Australia
By Grant Wyeth
Since 2016 India has leapfrogged both New Zealand and China to become the third largest country of birth in Australia after Australia itself and the United Kingdom.
Australia Foreign Minister Stresses AUKUS Will Not Create Nuclear Weapons
By Associated Press
“... We are talking about nuclear propulsion, not nuclear weapons,” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Tuesday.
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.
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.
China and Australia’s Dueling Pacific Tours Make Final Stops
By Gantry Meilana and Nick Perry
The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final stops Friday on what has become an island-hopping diplomatic duel in the South Pacific.