The fate of the subsea environment and the seabed are on the brink of a fundamental shift. Driven by the Trump administration’s recent sweeping changes to US national security and foreign and domestic ...

There is near universal agreement that Australia should spend more money on defence. The big political parties want to spend more. The defence commentariat overwhelmingly agrees. And earlier this week ...

Every five or six years, Canberra gets a special visit. This month, officials from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Paris secretariat, supported by two other OECD countries, ...

A Dassault Rafale fighter jet (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images) For France, following the setback after Australia cancelled a major submarine deal in favour of nuclear-powered boats under the ...

South Korea’s presidential by-election, triggered by the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived effort to impose martial law in December, has elevated Democratic Party figurehead Lee ...

When King Charles delivered the throne speech to open the Canadian parliament last month, British journalist Martin Kettle sought to capture the rare and elaborate occasion:. The idea that a vibrant ...

Enthusiastic, full of hope, with postgraduate degrees, international work experience, and legal working rights, I arrived in Melbourne about six months ago. But when it came to renting a home, a very ...

The dominant strategic narrative presents the Indo-Pacific in binaries: democracies versus autocracies, the US-led order versus China’s challenge, AUKUS versus the PLA Navy. But this framing is not ...

For decades, much of the world was expected to fall in line with one of two powers: follow Washington’s lead or move into Beijing’s orbit. From infrastructure lending to digital finance, global ...

With a riposte almost too good to be true, a Chinese emperor derided fumbling British attempts to curry favour with Beijing by insisting that “I set no value on objects strange and mysterious, and ...

In the past, even under the ambit of the Indo-Pacific, Australia’s engagement with the Indian Ocean has largely taken place in context of the military predominance of its treaty ally – the United ...