Is WeChat’s threat to Australian elections overstated?
Author: Fan Yang, Deakin University The 2019 Australian federal election was the first time that Australian politicians interacted with Mandarin…
Australia–US alliance turns to climate cooperation
Authors: Jackson Skinner, ANU and Walter Brenno Colnaghi, LSE The 2022 Australia–United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) set a significant precedent…
Whitlam’s legacy in Australia–Vietnam relations 50 years on
Author: Derek McDougall, University of Melbourne After winning office in December 1972, former Australian Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam established…
The fight with industry over tobacco controls in Australia
Author: Michelle I Jongenelis, The University of Melbourne In November 2022, Australia’s Minister for Health Mark Butler announced plans to…
Australia’s Chinese diaspora faces a representation deficit
Author: Osmond Chiu, Per Capita Australia’s 2022 federal election marked a turning point in the country’s politics. For the first…
The highly charged geopolitics of lithium
Author: Marina Yue Zhang, UTS Clean energy technologies are essential to achieve the decarbonisation targets set in the Paris Agreement.…
Seeing through the clean hydrogen hype
Author: Andrew Blakers, ANU In 2021, Australian company Star Scientific signed an agreement with the Philippine government to develop green…
Australian reliance on Chinese exports an economic reality
Author: James Laurenceson, UTS The share of Australia’s total goods exports going to China fell to 27 per cent in…
A different kind of Asia Pacific minilateralism is now needed
Author: Editorial Board, ANU There’s no question that the risks of political and economic fragmentation that come with great power…
Cold War Archives: Return to the Jakarta-Tokyo-Canberra Trilateral
Author: Andrew Levidis, ANU Australia’s role in Asian regionalism has too often been a blind spot in public discourse about…