It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Support for Taiwan is often presented as a binary: the West either defends a fellow democracy or abandons it to authoritarianism. But the real dilemma is not moral. It is strategic. For all the ...

Yvonne Tan is a Senior Researcher in Social Policy and National Integration at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. Her research interests include labour migration and ...

In 2023, the Global Slavery Index suggested that in Malaysia, 6.3 out of every 1,000 people were affected by modern slavery – up from 4.2 per 1,000 in 2016, ranking it above regional neighbours ...

There’s a panic button under every MP’s desk. And no, it’s not for political emergencies. During the last Australian election campaign alone there were disrupted death threats and high-profile ...

The brutal killing of two embassy staff from the Israeli mission in the heart of Washington DC is a chilling marker of the dangers in an age of lone-wolf terrorism and transnational radicalisation.

Alex Goth is currently a Master in Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he is a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow. He studies political inclusion, democratic backsliding, ...

Kristy Graham is the CEO of Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI). Prior to ASFI, Kristy led the Australian government’s work with private and institutional investors to mobilise capital for ...

It is now just over 30 years since then Prime Minister Paul Keating declared, to some frisson in the international relations community, that “no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia”.

Last year, the Albanese government launched its Future Made in Australia policy suite – a bold, $25 billion strategy to build sovereign clean industry, reindustrialise the nation, and position ...

Sudan is the world's forgotten war. With over 50,000 Sudanese-born residents and more than 130,000 people of Sudanese ancestry living in Australia – many concentrated in cities including Melbourne, ...

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