Australia is hosting the 8th MIKTA Foreign Ministers meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop welcoming her counterparts from Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey […]

President Rodrigo Duterte has ushered in a new chapter in Philippine foreign policy: one lacking in continuity, coherence and direction. Previously acrimonious relations […]

Despite the international community’s pledge to ‘never again’ allow mass atrocities like the Rwandan genocide to be repeated, the constant flow of news […]

The concept of a universal basic income has received renewed attention in 2016. The general frustration with mainstream politics and the finance sector—manifested […]

For the last three decades our official analysis of Australia’s strategic environment has emphasised its fluidity. That trend is rising sharply. Indeed, today […]

Foreign policy is always a key portfolio for a party of government, but perhaps even more so at this time. It seems to […]

Donald Trump’s election has brought into sharp relief the need to fundamentally reassess Australia’s alliance with the US; although a change in the […]

The global rules-based order has come under extreme pressure in 2016, with recent elections and referenda results being read as a rejection of […]

Migration has underpinned Australia’s economic growth since the end of the resources boom. Temporary skilled migrants now comprise 7 per cent of the workforce. […]

We have experienced some seismic international events over the last 12 months with the Brexit decision and the United States election. Those events […]