Last week delegations from around the world met in Geneva to discuss the elimination of nuclear weapons once and for all. A majority of states […]

Nauru is best known to most Australians as the remote Pacific island where asylum seekers who arrive by boat are sent. What is […]

The Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games are finished and now the time to reflect upon the city’s performance. As well as great athletic achievements and controversy over the use […]

As we celebrate World Humanitarian Day on 19 August let us reflect that while international respect for humanitarian principles have regressed in recent years, […]

The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre—one of the two key sites of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime—will close. A date is not set, […]

Australians have been horrified and mesmerised by the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Brussels, Munich, Paris and Nice. Cities that are so familiar to […]

A month has passed since the ill-fated coup d’état in Turkey of 15 July. Tens of thousands of suspected Gulenists have been rounded up […]

After many years of negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was finalised earlier this year. It is the most wide-ranging trade agreement to be […]

One of the certainties over who will be the next United Nations secretary-general is that it will not be Kevin Rudd. Despite the perception […]

The Australia-China partnership can be a powerful force for the stability and prosperity of the region and for the global system. Nurtured carefully and […]