Graeme Dobell FAIIA 21 August 2016 Graeme Dobell, a journalist since 1971, has spent his career reporting on Australian and international politics, foreign affairs and defence, and the Asia […] Read More
Manus To Close, But Where To For The Detainees? By Dr Amy Maguire 18 August 2016 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, […] Read More
Terrorism: What do Attacks in Europe Mean for Australia? By Jacinta Carroll 18 August 2016 Australians have been horrified and mesmerised by the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Brussels, Munich, Paris and Nice. Cities that are so familiar to […] Read More
UN Secretary-General: The Race So Far By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 17 August 2016 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 […] Read More
Explosive Toll of Remnants of War By Natalya Wells 16 August 2016 Anti-personnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war continue to endanger civilian populations around the world long after the conflicts have moved on. […] Read More
Cautious Response to Chinese Energy Investment By Colin Chapman FAIIA 10 August 2016 This week, Treasurer Scott Morrison halted the sale of NSW electricity provider Ausgrid to the Chinese and Hong Kong bidders on national security grounds. This follows […] Read More
Hidden Power: Organised Crime in International Politics By Dr James Cockayne 10 August 2016 All too often criminal mafias determine political outcomes by influencing elections, changing constitutions, fomenting terrorism, waging war and even negotiating peace deals when […] Read More
Who is WikiLeaks Working For? By Luke Heemsbergen 10 August 2016 There was global media coverage when WikiLeaks recently published the Democratic National Conference email archive and the so-called Erdoğan emails belonging to Turkey’s […] Read More
UN Security Council Needs More Elected Members By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA and Professor John Langmore 04 August 2016 Following the Australian government’s decision not to nominate former prime minister Kevin Rudd for the role of United Nations secretary-general, attention is focussing […] Read More
Rio Olympics 03 August 2016 Our speaker at Glover Cottages on Tuesday 2 August was Dr Jorge Knijnik, a senior lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. A […] Read More
Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar By Associate Professor Andrew Selth 01 August 2016 Australia has a strong tradition of diplomatic memoirs. Many former ambassadors and other officials have recorded their experiences and impressions of international events. […] Read More