Despite Southeast Asian countries’ reputation for being run by men, the Philippines and Singapore have impressive indicators on gender equality. However, when considering Southeast Asia as a whole, gender equality is still nowhere near perfect.

The idea of the Indo-Pacific has rapidly become a major part of policy and analytical discussion in Australia. Few people in Australia can claim to be more enthusiastic or influential advocates of the Indo-Pacific idea than Rory Medcalf.

Today is the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, a United Nations initiative to raise awareness of sport as a tool to accomplish the UN’s development objectives. Australia uses sports in its foreign aid both for development outcomes and diplomatic engagement in the region.

The environment has all but disappeared from political discourse as the world grapples with a pandemic. COVID-19 is seems to be our “payback” for the excesses of globalisation.

Environmental arguments against coal don’t work. It's time to mobilise a new national interest against Australia’s harmful addiction - the national security interest.

The consequences of Covid-19.

In responding to the dreaded Coronavirus outbreak, governments on a war footing face a policy dilemma: remedy or overkill? It is right and important, always, to be sensitive to the possibility that government action might do more harm than good.

The term “Indo-Pacific” has become increasingly present in Australian foreign policy discourses, particularly in terms of democracy promotion.  Yet perceptions of exceptionalism can have the opposite effect.

The future of Afghanistan seems to be predicated on a truce by trial and error.  The United States is the cause of insecurity in Afghanistan and if Afghanistan wants to be independent and at peace, the best hope may be a future without active US involvement.

COVID-19 is set to impact US foreign policy, US-China geopolitics, and great power politics in the Post-COVID-19 world. Now is the time for India to take its rightful place in the community of global leadership.