President Joe Biden has nominated Caroline Kennedy as the new US ambassador to Australia. Her time as ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 gives us insights into how she will approach the role here …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. In Australian strategy today, to talk of the US is to talk of China. The two …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Quad 1.0 had a tentative start and then crashed. Reborn in 2017, Quad 2.0 has had …
In more normal times, when nuclear-powered submarines and multibillion-dollar contract cancellations didn’t dominate the news, plans to increase the US military presence operating out of Australia would be big news. It was swamped by the …
Think tanks are a familiar feature of the public-policy landscape in Australia, along with television epidemiologists and dyspeptic former prime ministers. But the idea of an independent, non-government institution, established specifically to study a particular …