China's Gambling is Stacked in Macau’s Favour By Catherine Garlick 03 April 2017 For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the only thing worse than gambling in China is travelling elsewhere to gamble. Following Xi’s crackdown on corruption, […] 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
Reading Room: Australia and Latin America By Zoe Dauth 03 April 2017 As an Australian focused on Latin America, I am frequently asked, “Why Latin America?” This edited book comes at a pivotal time in […] Read More
Hannah Bretherton 31 March 2017 Hannah Bretherton is a project coordinator and researcher at China Matters. She previously worked as a Research Support Coordinator at the Australia-China Relations […] 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
New Directions But No Generational Change in Timor-Leste By Dr Sue Ingram 29 March 2017 Last week, Francisco Guterres became Timor-Leste’s first party-affiliated president. While the election broke new ground structurally and procedurally, the office of president is […] 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
First EU-Australia Leadership Forum Policy Workshop 29 March 2017 On the 28th of March AIIA was delighted to be involved in the first Policy Workshop of the EU-Australia Leadership Forum, a 3-year […] Read More
Turkey's Raqqa Dilemma By Emel Parlar Dal and Ali Murat Kurşun 28 March 2017 Divisions between Ankara, Washington and Moscow on Syria leave Turkey with few options. With the end of operation Eurphrates Shield and planning underway for the […] Read More
The Real Nature of the Syrian Conflict By Dr Bruce Mabley 28 March 2017 Islamic State is retreating but this does not signal the end of the Syrian conflict. For the conflict has never been about religion; […] Read More
EU-Australia Leadership Forum Policy Workshop 28 March 2017 On the 28th of March AIIA was delighted to be involved in the first Policy Workshop of the EU-Australia Leadership Forum, a 3-year project […] Read More