This episode of AIIA VIC's Dyason House podcast discusses the history of the people known as the Rohingya and the realities of the current refugee crisis.

Australia should expand its cooperation with China on climate change by working with China to ensure the Belt and Road Initiative aids sustainable development.

Last month Australia ended its direct aid to the Palestinian Authority and suspended Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA’s multi-million dollar program in Palestine. It is time to change the trajectory of jaundiced scepticism of everything Palestinian.

There is a much higher chance of a major power war in Asia than most people presume. Asia is in the throes of a crisis slide: a period where there is potential for strategic crisis.

Imran Khan is now poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister. But he’s likely to find running a country much more difficult than winning the vote with his party still short of a majority.

Thousands of Bangladeshi high school students are taking to the streets demanding safer roads and justice. The violent response and suppression of media coverage casts a long shadow ahead of elections in December.

This episode looks at recent elections in Pakistan and Cambodia and a new trilateral investment fund announced by the United States, Japan and Australia. It asks how worried should Australia be about the decline of the United States?

The Iraqi government’s two-pronged approach of concessions and crackdown is unlikely to address the source of recent unrest. What Basra needs now is increased local autonomy.

Alleged misuse of personal data to influence political events has led to calls for transnational data protection laws.

The key difference between Australia and the United States in their treatment of asylum seekers is the available methods of entry.