Australia's Refugee and Asylum Policies 16 November 2016 At Glover Cottages on 15 November 2016, Arja Keski-Nummi outlined Australia’s refugee and asylum policies in an international context. Former head of the […] Read More
Trump, Abe and the US-Japan Security Alliance By Leif-Eric Easley 16 November 2016 The new US president-elect and the long-serving Japanese prime minister will meet this week to discuss how Tokyo’s international security contributions are integral […] Read More
Trump, Abe and the US-Japan Security Alliance 16 November 2016 The new US president-elect and the long-serving Japanese prime minister will meet this week to discuss how Tokyo’s international security contributions are integral […] Read More
India Tackles Black Money By Professor Raghbendra Jha 16 November 2016 On 8 November, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a policy of demonetisation. It was designed to tackle the pervasive role of black money […] Read More
Does Brexit Mean the Break-up of Britain? By Dr Ben Wellings 16 November 2016 One of the paradoxes of Brexit is that what its supporters advocated as a strengthening of British sovereignty weakened the multi-national fabric of […] Read More
The Politics of Post-Mosul Iraq By Damian Doyle 15 November 2016 There is concern about the direction of the battle to retake Mosul after reports this week from Human Rights Watch that Kurdish Peshmerga […] Read More
Associate Professor Peter Christoff 10 November 2016 Peter Christoff is a political scientist and associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He was formerly a […] Read More
President Trump Will Reshape the US By Colin Chapman FAIIA 10 November 2016 Like the 102 Pilgrim Fathers who sailed into Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, the millions of Americans who elected Donald Trump to be the next […] Read More
The Positives in a Trump Presidency By Emeritus Professor James Cotton FAIIA 10 November 2016 While the commentariat has been alarmed—generally with justification—over the foreign policy outcomes that will be consequent on a Trump victory, there may nevertheless […] Read More
Tensions Erupt in Jakarta By Noor Huda Ismail 09 November 2016 Jakarta saw its biggest protest in years last Friday, prompting President Joko Widodo to cancel his planned visit to Australia. Some Western media report […] Read More
Speaking Indonesian: A Strategic Choice By Hamish McDonald FAIIA 08 November 2016 There are gloomy statistics about Indonesian language studies in Australia’s schools and universities. Just recently Tim Lindsey pointed out we had less kids […] Read More