Reading Room: Civil Resistance in West Papua By Professor Damien Kingsbury 12 September 2016 Injustices continue to be perpetrated upon the people of West Papua. Consequently, there continue to be calls by well-meaning outsiders and by West […] Read More
Reading Room: Civil Resistance in West Papua 12 September 2016 Injustices continue to be perpetrated upon the people of West Papua. Consequently, there continue to be calls by well-meaning outsiders and by West […] Read More
Australia and Globalisation By Dr Ken Henry AC FASSA FAIIA 08 September 2016 Decades of economic reform have underpinned a long period of Australian economic growth. However, in believing that we are invincible, we may have […] Read More
Turkish Coup 07 September 2016 Dr Murat Yurtbilir lectures on Turkish politics and history at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the ANU. On Tuesday 6 […] Read More
Long Tan: Reconsidering Australia at War By Richard Broinowski 06 September 2016 The controversy over the commemoration of the battle of Long Tan underlines an unedifying aspect of Australian military culture: the need to glorify […] Read More
A Post-Karimov Uzbekistan By Luke J Dawes 06 September 2016 Succession plans are a serious political vulnerability for the ageing leaders of Central Asia. With the death of President Islam Karimov announced in Uzbekistan […] Read More
Dr Ken Henry AC FASSA FAIIA 05 September 2016 Dr Henry held senior policy advising positions in the Australian Treasury from late 1984 until early 2011. From 2001 to 2011 he was […] Read More
The Science of a New Space Race By Thom Dixon 04 September 2016 Landmark scientific projects such as the Human Genome Project can encourage international cooperation and bring nations together. However when security interests and defence research align with the […] Read More
Australia and India: Forging a Stronger Relationship By Dr David Brewster 01 September 2016 The rise of Asia’s two giants, China and India, is forcing Australia to re-examine an understanding of the regional order that has existed since […] Read More
G20: Making the Hangzhou Summit Relevant By Professor Peter Drysdale AO FAIIA 31 August 2016 Among all the summit-babble about inclusive and sustainable growth and a myriad other agendas that have attached themselves to the G20, it’s still […] Read More
The End of Pacifist Japan? By Walter Hamilton 31 August 2016 In elections in July, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan secured the necessary parliamentary majorities to put a referendum to the people on changing the […] Read More