Rugby league is a shared passion in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and, potentially, a powerful connector between the two countries. Sports diplomacy transcends borders, fosters mutual understanding, ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an historic treaty with Nauru President David Adeang, securing the financial future of the Pacific nation – or at least for the next five years ...

Negotiations towards a global plastic treaty adjourned in Busan last week without delivering an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The introduction of ambitious caps to the ...

Such a capability has proven crucial to the success of several externally orientated violent campaigns undertaken by jihadist actors. For example, the spate of violence against Europe by ISIS in the ...

Australia is still conducting disaster diplomacy in a reactive, myopic and piecemeal fashion, mostly bilaterally.

The First Friend by Malcolm Knox is a dark and sadly relevant exploration of power, loyalty, and moral compromise in an age of creeping authoritarianism and the return of strongman politics. Set in ...

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Hannah Buckley is a Research Assistant at the Lowy Institute, contributing to the Southeast Asia Aid Map project. She is completing a Master of International Relations at UNSW.

In recent Australian maritime security conversations, it would be fair to say that submarines have featured fairly prominently. Although the tenor of sub talk this week still proved head-turning, when ...

While Russia struggles to capture strategically insignificant villages in eastern Ukraine, its client in Syria, President Bashar-al Assad, has lost control over Aleppo – the war-torn nation’s second ...

Reporting on COP29, the UN climate change talks held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, has focused on mostly one aspect – the struggle to reach a satisfactory pledge to fund climate change action in the ...

What was Drieu’s best book? Name three others. Was his fate just? Only after passing that test did the bookseller deign to bring up a box of aged, tattered books and give me what I had asked for.