That Australia cannot guarantee regional security via military means should not provoke a feeling of helplessness. It can evidently defend its territory and people for a relatively low cost. Australia ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

Despite the war in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia ending in November 2022, tensions are again escalating. Locals are braced for the possibility of another outbreak of violence. The two-year ...

The rivers of the Kashmir region feed into the Indian subcontinent, including the Indus and its tributaries – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej. India and Pakistan are heavily reliant on these ...

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...

Anthony Albanese missed out on the long-awaited face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Alberta and is now considering attending the NATO meeting at The Hague next week to try ...

Established in 2023 in the Australian Department of Defence, net assessments will play an increasingly important role in shaping the future of the Australian Defence Force, disciplining long-term ...

Australia’s democratic stability makes it a welcome outlier as the state of global democracy has grown more discouraging with each passing year. The past two and a half decades have been marked by a ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

As wars in the Middle East and Europe intensify and take on new dimensions, and as a ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan, an old struggle on the Thai-Cambodia land border risks adding to the ...

On 15 June, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made a private phone call to Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, a former prime minister who remains the dominant political figure in the ...

This year’s poll shows that Australians have been quick to realise that America’s language on “the China challenge” in the Pacific is not matched by its actions. The contradictions, or, more ...