That Australia cannot guarantee regional security via military means should not provoke a feeling of helplessness. It can evidently defend its territory and people for a relatively low cost. Australia ...

In the past fortnight, multi-party parliamentary delegations from India and Pakistan have stopped in London as part of a world tour. Having had the opportunity to interact with both delegations, one ...

On 15 June, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra made a private phone call to Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, a former prime minister who remains the dominant political figure in the ...

QR payments allow customers to scan a merchant’s unique QR code using their smartphones. The payment app, provided by a bank or financial technology company (fintech) and linked to the user’s account, ...

Fortunately, the respondents to the Lowy Institute Poll are required to be more direct. In 2025, 69 per cent of respondents saw it as very likely or somewhat likely that China would become a military ...

The rivers of the Kashmir region feed into the Indian subcontinent, including the Indus and its tributaries – Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej. India and Pakistan are heavily reliant on these ...

This month, world leaders met to attend the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, held in France. In his speech, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Feleti Teo called for“the development of an international treaty on sea ...

Anthony Albanese missed out on the long-awaited face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump at the G7 meeting in Alberta and is now considering attending the NATO meeting at The Hague next week to try ...

Australia has long neglected the Indian Ocean. Canberra historically largely depended upon allies, first Britain and then the United States, to secure its interests in the Indian Ocean. Yet Asia’s ...

It was a telling example of the manner in which conflicts from abroad can raise issues of peace and harmony in Australia, and also bring an extra dimension of pressure on Australian foreign policy.

An unusual kind of tension is brewing in Northeast Asia. In a first, China deployed its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers to the Pacific, generating fresh friction with Japan. The Chinese ...

Australia’s democratic stability makes it a welcome outlier as the state of global democracy has grown more discouraging with each passing year. The past two and a half decades have been marked by a ...