Last month’s signing aboard JS Kumano of contracts for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to build the first three Mogami-class frigates for Australia was rightly celebrated as a major step in the ...

Last month, a billiard table upended an Indonesian official’s afternoon. The table, budgeted at Rp400 million (A$31,000) from public funds, appeared on a dashboard called Nemesis Assai, a tool built ...

Ocean finance is rapidly emerging as a central pillar of the global response to ocean degradation and climate change. Carboncredits linked to mangrove restoration are one example of the financial ...

International trade has faced multiple shocks in recent years, making the need to reform the architecture of global trade more urgent than ever. Aligning new trade rules with global net-zero ambitions ...

Australia’s recently released National Defence Strategy highlighted the need for enhanced national resilience. However, it contained no discussion about how Australia might mobilise as a nation for ...

Beijing has cast itself as a mediator between Pakistan and the Taliban, neighbours locked in a border conflict that was bound to erupt. China has leant on its ties to both sides to present itself as ...

Across the Pacific, relationships are the currency of standing. Talanoa and kōrero – open, values‑based dialogue – sit at the heart of how trust is built, how disagreements are navigated, and how ...

The Iran war is hitting the Indo-Pacific’s most fragile economies hard. The shock is travelling through multiple channels at once: energy, food, financial stress, and political instability. A ...

The January 2026 raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro instilled confidence in US President Donald Trump in the use of lethal force to deliver outsized results. Plenty of people had ...