For all his bravado and rhetoric against the International Criminal Court, no other statement from the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte betrays as much meaning as when he exclaimed in ...

Housing will be a central issue of Australia’s forthcoming election. The cost and scarcity of it is a national emergency. While younger voters may force politicians to think about it more clearly when ...

Singapore’s defence minister last week announced that two new submarines would be acquired from Germany in addition to the four it currently operates. The acquisition of the two additional Type-218 ...

It is estimated that there are 3,800 shipwrecks scattered across the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Most date from the Second World War. However, shipwrecks are not an issue consigned to the past. In the ...

The 25% tariff on Australian exports of steel and aluminium to the United States commenced as of 3pm this afternoon. Australia is not alone in facing this tariff hike, and while under Trump’s first ...

The maritime relationship between Australia and India has developed considerably over recent years, but it has yet to reach its full potential. As both countries face mounting challenges in the ...

Defence analyst Marcus Hellyer talks with the Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen about the unprecedented appearance of Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast. What message was Beijing sending? How ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in January that a Japanese national had pleaded guilty to the attempted trafficking of nuclear materials, including uranium, thorium and plutonium, from ...

Since his return to office less than two months ago, President Donald Trump has trashed America’s reputation among liberal democratic allies, including Australia. He has sided with Vladimir Putin’s ...

For many scholars of international relations, the orthodoxy of the realist approach – much like “market–based” approaches in economics – has created a mistaken belief that the play-off of interests, ...

Lucy Klein is a former Australian Institute of International Affairs South Australia (AIIA SA) intern and an undergraduate student at the University of Adelaide (UofA) where she studies Sociology, ...

This morning at an International Women’s Day breakfast in Adelaide, Penny Wong was asked a simple, yet terrific question. It has indeed been quite a week. Suddenly there is talk about Australian ...