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 ...

Warren Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and the former National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He quit the Labor Party in 2012 and was appointed to the position of chairman ...

Ryan Neelam is Director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute and is Project Lead on the annual flagship publication, the Lowy Institute Poll. Prior to joining the ...

Rob Jauncey is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, with a background in Pacific and international development issues. As the inaugural chief investment officer of the Australian Infrastructure ...

It is conventional wisdom among Australian political commentators to observe, and sometimes regret, that foreign policy doesn’t matter in elections in an island country with a once stable two-party ...

Bharat Sharma is a Research Analyst in the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme at the Takshashila Institution, a think tank based in Bengaluru. He researches the Quad's role in the Indo-Pacific and has ...

Nick Fabbri is a Sydney-based policy analyst, writer, podcaster, and reservist soldier, who recently completed his Master of Public Policy at Oxford University as a John Monash Scholar. Visit his ...

Russia is about to host 29 world leaders at its annual Victory Day parade, commemorating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. But this year, the parade carries a ...

If I asked you to think of a spy, you might picture a tuxedo-clad secret agent, or a shadowy Cold War-era figure in fedora and trench coat. But the face of spying has changed – a tweed-clad university ...

Anthony Albanese has been returned as Australia’s prime minister in a landslide. In this episode, Program Directors Mihai Sora and Susannah Patton speak with host Lydia Khalil about what that means ...

The PLA Navy’s unprecedented live-fire exercise 640 kilometres off the south coast of New South Wales, quickly followed by a second such exercise closer to New Zealand, was… ...