Fragile Refugee Agreement Reveals the Real Policy Failure By Marianne Dickie 08 April 2017 Slow progress is being made on Australia’s refugee deal with the United States, but in recent weeks US officials have fingerprinted and photographed […] Read More
Cracking the Glass Ceiling is Simply Not Good Enough By Claudia Russo 08 April 2017 The full participation of women in national security is not only an issue of equality: it is vital to Australia’s capabilities and prosperity. […] Read More
Why Chemical Weapons are Not Quite Cricket By Stjepan Bosnjak 08 April 2017 The international taboo against chemical weapons is widespread albeit inconsistently applied. The reaction to the recent chemical attack in Syria demonstrates the West’s historical […] Read More
Planning a More Ambitious Foreign Policy for Canberra By Ruth Pearce 06 April 2017 Australia’s head diplomats came from around the world to meet in Canberra as a group for the first time last week. It was […] Read More
The Road to the Elysée Palace: Marine and Macron By Dr Remy Davison 04 April 2017 Neither the unpopular incumbent Socialist Party nor the scandal-ridden conservatives will win the French presidential elections this month. If the independent candidate Emmanuel […] Read More
Fear and Opportunity in the Fifth Estate By Professor Philomena Murray and Paul Soyez 04 April 2017 What a strange French presidential campaign it has been so far. The poor-quality, policy free debate has been based on opposing visions of the […] Read More
More International Cooperation Needed To Regain Control Over Labour Migration By Dr Giovanni Di Lieto 03 April 2017 The inescapable economic reality of globalisation is driving unprecedented crossborder labour flows. Australia must promote better global labour migration […] Read More
Islamic State is Not Retreating, It’s Redirecting By Trevor Alexander 03 April 2017 As the battle for Mosul continues, Islamic State’s position in the Middle East has weakened. Yet the terrorist organisation’s influence is growing in North […] Read More
Banning Nuclear Weapons 30 March 2017 At Glover Cottages on 28 March we marked the opening of negotiations at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to ban […] Read More
Brexit: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out By Colin Chapman FAIIA 29 March 2017 The United Kingdom has now triggered Article 50 with the delivery of a letter from the British Prime Minister to the President of […] Read More
New Zealand Trumps Australia on China... Again By Hannah Bretherton 29 March 2017 In a love letter to New Zealand this week, the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang unintentionally exposed flaws in the Australia-China relationship. All nations pursue their […] Read More