Australia

Entrenched interests and orthodoxies will inhibit the new Australian government’s ability to significantly enhance the country’s moral authority. 

Australia has an opportunity to establish itself as a global champion and a safe haven for children and women who have been victims of abuse.

The result confirmed that the Labor Party’s chief rival, the Liberal Party, is now deeply unpopular in the state.

The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide. 

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. 

Over 90,000 people packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch a cricket game between India and Pakistan.

It turns out the protection of liberal democracy doesn't need to be passionate and stirring; it may instead just need to be temperate and competent. 

Immigration is one of the primary tools Australia has at its disposal to become a more secure, more prosperous, and more influential country.

The new government is fulfilling its election commitment to establish a First Nations Foreign Policy. 

Canberra now seeks to play a leading diplomatic role in the global effort to cut carbon emissions, but actions are more important than words.

From Indonesian concerns to possible overreliance on an unpredictable U.S., Australia’s nuclear submarine ambitions present plenty of challenges.

In the long term, reconciliation efforts and growing commercial relations with Japan helped dim bitter Pacific War memories in Australia.