Indigenous perspectives are rarely foregrounded in national policy debates. Australia has a long history of imposing solutions on First Nations communities and expecting increased economic participation and social inclusion to follow. This is a domain …
The World Health Assembly met last week amid a slew of proposals—most recently from the United Nations Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response—to create stronger, enforceable global rules for tackling future infectious disease outbreaks. …
The withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan and the planned closure of the embassy in Kabul will complicate the task of investigators gathering evidence to prosecute soldiers alleged to have committed war crimes. After a …
There can be little doubt Australia’s strategic environment has evolved significantly in recent years. Across the Indo-Pacific, we now face a region characterised by a broad spectrum of geopolitical influences, from conflict and contest at …
One of the difficult things about being Taiwan is the lack of normal government-to-government interaction. Taiwan is diplomatically recognised by only 15 countries, so it is dealt with informally in most of its international interactions. …
When it comes to economic growth, Europe has been lagging behind the world’s other major economic powers—the United States and China—for some time. No surprise, then, that the old continent’s relative weight in the global …
Given the scale of the threats Australia may face in an uncertain future, the nation needs to seriously reconsider how it will defend itself, strategist Albert Palazzo has warned. That will mean a major switch …
It’s been a year and a half since we started living with—and too often dying from—Covid-19. Although the pandemic is by no means over, it’s not too soon to take a step back and draw …
In this special episode for Africa Day, ASPI’s Lisa Sharland speaks to Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Martin Kimani. They discuss Kenya’s role on the UN Security Council, multilateralism via Zoom and counterterrorism. …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. When ASPI was launched, intense argument raged between Australia’s regionalists and globalists. Old arguments took on …
Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern will prove the Australia–New Zealand travel bubble works when they meet in Queenstown next week. Breathless commentary suggests it’s going to be a difficult meeting over China policy, but that’s …
President Joe Biden’s statement this week of an ‘investigation into the origins of Covid-19’ shows that the US intelligence community is making progress towards uncovering whether the virus was released because of a ‘laboratory accident’ …
