Syria: Iranian and Russian Support for Assad By Ian Dudgeon 01 October 2015 As US President Obama and Russian President Putin met this week in the US to discuss the fight against Islamic State, support for […] Read More
Letter from Washington: the Xi–Obama Summit, No Lovefest Dr Claude Rakisits 01 October 2015 This was never going to be an easy meeting between the leaders of one of the oldest democracies and the world’s largest dictatorship. […] Read More
Prime Minister Turnbull – A hope for a new page in Australia-Indonesia relations? Edward Durie 27 September 2015 A phrase that has been passed around the last few months is that the relationship between Australia and […] Read More
The Muslim “Rohingya” and Myanmar’s Upcoming Election Dr Anthony Ware 25 September 2015 Myanmar goes to the polls on November 8 after five years of significant reform, yet these elections pose a great danger for the […] Read More
Pope Works to Reconcile Catholic Teaching, Population Pressures and Sustainable Development Bruce Duncan 23 September 2015 On his first visit to the United States, as well as addressing a joint session of Congress, Pope Francis […] Read More
Pacific Islands Forum: Climate ‘Consensus’ on the Road to Paris Associate Professor Greg Fry 23 September 2015 The Leaders’ Declaration on Climate Change Action, which emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby on 10 September, doesn’t provide the […] Read More
Can the W20 Improve the G20? 17 September 2015 The W20, the G20’s gender engagement group, launched in Ankara on 6 September 2015. I was privileged to be in attendance; for most […] Read More
Venezuela's Woes: Finding a Scapegoat 15 September 2015 Severe economic mismanagement has caused chaos in Venezuela. Now President Nicolás Maduro is using Colombian migrants as a scapegoat. In 1993 Hugo Chávez became […] Read More
1965, Jakarta: a Year of Living Dangerously 09 September 2015 Geoffrey Miller was posted to the Jakarta Embassy on 1 October 1965, when six army generals were murdered by the “30th September Movement”. The […] Read More
In Australia’s Third Century, We Must Rethink Our Responses to a New World 03 September 2015 Asia’s unprecedented growth heralds a new century for Australia in which it must reframe the national discussion on […] Read More
Good International Citizenship and Military Intervention in Syria 01 September 2015 There is, in my judgement, one very good reason for expanding our present military operations into Syria, which […] Read More