The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

Every five or six years, Canberra gets a special visit. This month, officials from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Paris secretariat, supported by two other OECD countries, ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto campaigned on a promise of continuity and better economic performance. Is Prabowo living up to his campaign promises or taking the country in a new direction? The ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

When King Charles delivered the throne speech to open the Canadian parliament last month, British journalist Martin Kettle sought to capture the rare and elaborate occasion:. The idea that a vibrant ...

In the past, even under the ambit of the Indo-Pacific, Australia’s engagement with the Indian Ocean has largely taken place in context of the military predominance of its treaty ally – the United ...

Enthusiastic, full of hope, with postgraduate degrees, international work experience, and legal working rights, I arrived in Melbourne about six months ago. But when it came to renting a home, a very ...

There is near universal agreement that Australia should spend more money on defence. The big political parties want to spend more. The defence commentariat overwhelmingly agrees. And earlier this week ...

Ukraine’s strike on four Russian airfields on 1 June was one of the most effective operations of the war, causing an estimated US$7 billion in damage, disabling roughly a third of Russia’s strategic ...

With a riposte almost too good to be true, a Chinese emperor derided fumbling British attempts to curry favour with Beijing by insisting that “I set no value on objects strange and mysterious, and ...

For decades, much of the world was expected to fall in line with one of two powers: follow Washington’s lead or move into Beijing’s orbit. From infrastructure lending to digital finance, global ...