If you are holding out for a hero, Bonnie Tyler advises that “he’s gotta be strong and he’s gotta be fast/And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight”. The Welsh songbird first offered that counsel 42 ...

In a show of what appeared to be humble pie, Myanmar’s junta boss acknowledged that the scale of Friday’s earthquake would be beyond Myanmar’s capabilities and “invited” an international response to ...

Last month, three Chinese naval vessels conducted live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea without prior notification to Canberra while on a voyage circling Australia. The drills not only heightened ...

In 1962, Baby Boomer leaders stared into the abyss of nuclear war as the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, saved only by their belief in the prevailing doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget and Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s budget response were both heavy on spending promises, aiming to ease the cost of rent, housing, groceries, electricity, and ...

Shijie Wang is a Master of Public Policy candidate at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, specialising in geopolitical risk analysis, US-China relations, and national security. He ...

Dr Hilman Palaon is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute in the Indo-Pacific Development Centre. His work focuses on digital economy issues in the Indo-Pacific region. Hilman has extensive ...

When Chinese technology start-up DeepSeek shocked financial markets in January, having reportedly developed an AI system for just $6 million comparable to OpenAI offerings costing in the billions, ...

Australia’s election campaign formally kicked off today, with a vote to be held on 3 May. Labor, under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, presently holds a narrow majority in parliament, with Opposition ...

Rather than setting off a cascade of countries withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the US president may have achieved the opposite. It is astounding what Donald Trump gets away with by using a ball ...

The Houthis have proven resilient in the face of strikes. The Trump administration’s strikes this month on Yemen are not the first effort to disrupt the ongoing attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. The ...

Since his election, foreign policy coverage has been dominated by US President Donald Trump. But there is a lot more going on in the world than Trump 2.0. Many important global developments are not ...