It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

In 2023, the Global Slavery Index suggested that in Malaysia, 6.3 out of every 1,000 people were affected by modern slavery – up from 4.2 per 1,000 in 2016, ranking it above regional neighbours ...

There’s a panic button under every MP’s desk. And no, it’s not for political emergencies. During the last Australian election campaign alone there were disrupted death threats and high-profile ...

The brutal killing of two embassy staff from the Israeli mission in the heart of Washington DC is a chilling marker of the dangers in an age of lone-wolf terrorism and transnational radicalisation.

It is now just over 30 years since then Prime Minister Paul Keating declared, to some frisson in the international relations community, that “no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia”.

Last year, the Albanese government launched its Future Made in Australia policy suite – a bold, $25 billion strategy to build sovereign clean industry, reindustrialise the nation, and position ...

Sudan is the world's forgotten war. With over 50,000 Sudanese-born residents and more than 130,000 people of Sudanese ancestry living in Australia – many concentrated in cities including Melbourne, ...

In an environment where people are feeling increasingly dislocated and disconnected, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots have proven themselves a compelling form of social connection. Chatbots can ...

After three years of intense negotiations in the aftermath of Covid-19, the World Health Assembly this week adopted a historic Pandemic Agreement. The agreement, only the second of its kind adopted by ...

Last week, Russian and Ukrainian ceasefire negotiators met face-to-face for the first time since March 2022. The location for the talks was the same as three years ago, some of the negotiators were ...

The bitter fallout for conservatives from Australia’s federal election has continued with the National Party walking away from its 80-year coalition agreement with the Liberal Party. This is just the ...

Back to the future The Morrison government gave the development aid sector an unexpected surprise with a budget spending increase mostly in the Pacific, just as the latest crisis… In November 2018 ...