The heat of the Oz new year is here, heralding our annual Madeleine Award for the use of symbol, stunt, prop, gesture or jest. The envelopes, please, for the 9th awards ceremony, named to honour …
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Trouble is returning to the island of Bougainville and Australia must be prepared. With the 2019 independence referendum looming, Australia will be called on to help support the peace process, whatever the referendum’s outcome. Australia …
Australia’s 2017 white paper on foreign policy is necessarily a sweeping ranking of priorities and partners. Not unexpectedly, the paper renews our commitment to our major partner, the United States, while foreshadowing a nuanced relationship …
Reaching beyond the usual language of partnership with the South Pacific, Australia is offering economic and security integration. The integration policy is a new ideal: not just neighbours, but joined. It’s a complex task for …
The beat NRL on the radar NSW Police have investigated allegations of insider betting and match fixing in the NRL. While Strike Force Nuralda couldn’t find any evidence for the match-fixing claims, detectives uncovered incidents …
As military cooperation between France and Australia increases, the French Navy is stepping up its presence in the Asia–Pacific region to protect its trade routes and demonstrate the importance it places on international maritime law. …
Q: Which neighbour is more different to Australia—Indonesia or Papua New Guinea? A: Impossible to say. As neighbours forever, Australia, PNG and Indonesia constitute an extraordinary triangle. The contrasts and clashes abound. Each neighbour is …
A five-nation defence pact for which the peak ministerial council has met only 10 times in 46 years is a happy institution. Threats can’t be pressing and the military machinery must be running smoothly. …
Over five decades, Australia has expanded its defence and security guarantee to stretch from Timor-Leste through Papua New Guinea to all of the South Pacific. Today Australia offers its strategic weight, proximity and resources to …
Australia’s dread of France in the South Pacific in the 20th century has slowly turned into a new desire—that France stay and play and help pay. As the quintessential status quo power in the South …
Welcome back to the first Cyber wrap of 2017! Since our last post in mid-December, the political fallout from Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US election continue to reverberate. On 29 December President Obama …
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ – L.P. Hartley To delve into government …