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Australian Foreign Policy
![Interview: Kevin Rudd Interview: Kevin Rudd](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-02-21_07-14-13.jpg)
Interview: Kevin Rudd
By Maurits Elen
The former Australian prime minister on China's rise, U.S.-China relations, and Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific.
![Relax. Indian Access to Australian Uranium Is No Threat Relax. Indian Access to Australian Uranium Is No Threat](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-11-24_02-43-22.jpg)
Relax. Indian Access to Australian Uranium Is No Threat
By Poorvie P. Patel
Concerns that Australian uranium could end up in an Indian nuclear bomb are overstated.
![Australia’s Worldview, Minus the Spin Australia’s Worldview, Minus the Spin](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-08-26_12-58-33.jpg)
Australia’s Worldview, Minus the Spin
By Elliot Brennan
Is Australia moving out of the “slipstream” of power?
![Time to Rethink the Australia-Indonesia Relationship Time to Rethink the Australia-Indonesia Relationship](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-07-03_17-29-45.jpg)
Time to Rethink the Australia-Indonesia Relationship
By Allan Behm
Canberra can do more to inject a measure of purpose and connection into bilateral ties.
![Budgets, Diplomacy and Australia’s Foreign Aid Budgets, Diplomacy and Australia’s Foreign Aid](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-05-24_14-29-46.jpg)
Budgets, Diplomacy and Australia’s Foreign Aid
By Elliot Brennan
Australian diplomacy is going through an “unsettled period.”
![Australia, MIKTA and the Middle Power Question Australia, MIKTA and the Middle Power Question](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-04-20_10-27-50.jpg)
Australia, MIKTA and the Middle Power Question
By Helen Clark
A seemingly semantic debate is revealing of Australia’s international ambitions and its place in the world.
![Australia To Join China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Australia To Join China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-03-29_16-51-55.jpg)
Australia To Join China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
By Ankit Panda
Australia announced that it will join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member.
![Australia and Vietnam Enhance Their Comprehensive Partnership Australia and Vietnam Enhance Their Comprehensive Partnership](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-03-16_01-31-07.jpg)
Australia and Vietnam Enhance Their Comprehensive Partnership
By Carl Thayer
Both sides also agreed to raise bilateral relations to a strategic partnership in the future.
![Australia Should Not Lose Sight of the Indo-Pacific Theater Australia Should Not Lose Sight of the Indo-Pacific Theater](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-01-26_22-57-12.jpg)
Australia Should Not Lose Sight of the Indo-Pacific Theater
By Philipp Ivanov
A year of crises should not divert Canberra’s attention from a vital region.
![Australia Votes 'No' On Palestinian Draft Resolution at UNSC Australia Votes 'No' On Palestinian Draft Resolution at UNSC](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-12-31_08-32-18.jpg)
Australia Votes 'No' On Palestinian Draft Resolution at UNSC
By Ankit Panda
Australia joined the United States in voting "no" on a UN Security Council draft resolution on Palestine.
![Australia Needs a Foreign Policy Vision Australia Needs a Foreign Policy Vision](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-12-15_14-06-25.jpg)
Australia Needs a Foreign Policy Vision
By Elliot Brennan
The Abbott government must break Australia’s “provincial reflex” in foreign policy.
![Tony Abbott: The Unlikely Globalist? Tony Abbott: The Unlikely Globalist?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-10-07_05-08-40.jpg)
Tony Abbott: The Unlikely Globalist?
By Michael Sheldrick and Akram Azimi
The prime minister’s foreign policy approach has evolved markedly over the past year. But is it meaningful?