Quiet diplomacy only engenders bullying. It’s time to speak up.

I emerged from the voting booths at Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club last Saturday clad in red budgie smugglers – a pale imitation of former prime minister Tony Abbott in his political (and physical) prime.

Anthony Albanese has been returned as Australia’s prime minister in a landslide. In this episode, Program Directors Mihai Sora and Susannah Patton speak with host Lydia Khalil about what that means ...

There is a school of thought, found mainly in South Asia, that claims the United States and its allies are preparing to launch a “proxy war” in Myanmar. The operation would ostensibly be aimed at ...

Russia is about to host 29 world leaders at its annual Victory Day parade, commemorating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. But this year, the parade carries a ...

Last year, the South Pacific Stock Exchange and International Finance Corporation, with support from Australia and New Zealand, launched an initiative to help identify environmentally sustainable ...

In June, Australia and 57 other countries will come together in Milan, Italy for the 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. This annual meeting of the Antarctic Treaty parties will occur at a ...

It is conventional wisdom among Australian political commentators to observe, and sometimes regret, that foreign policy doesn’t matter in elections in an island country with a once stable two-party ...

Overnight, India has conducted missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan Administered Kashmir as part of “Operation Sindoor”. Reports suggest there have been at least 24 strikes across nine target ...

The Albanese government now faces a choice on Australian development cooperation: stick with the current trajectory or use this mandate to pursue ambitious change. During Labor’s first term, there was ...

There is nothing resembling a welcome centre at the unkempt Amelia Earhart memorial in Lae, Papua New Guinea’s second city and capital of Morobe province. There isn’t even a walkway: visitors must ...