Australian Outlook Blog Posts

13 Oct 2026
Spain's intelligence services saw the Ceuta surge coming and identified the social media groups driving it. The government's fatal mistake
13 Oct 2026
By breaking away from rules, the United States seeks to leverage deep seabed mining beyond the accepted multilateral governance framework.
13 Oct 2026
India and the United Arab Emirates work closely with the United States-led Artemis system, while China and Russia are developing
09 Oct 2026
This week in Australia foreign affairs: the Australian Government updated its counter-terrorism sanctions list, announced a range of disaster relief
05 Oct 2026
Brazilians will go to the polls in October this year. The Master Bank scandal, although entangling both sides of politics,
05 Oct 2026
With Chinese development finance flowing into the Pacific and Western aid in record retreat, Canberra can't outspend Beijing. Australia's best
05 Oct 2026
In the wake of COVID-19 shocks to the global supply chain, countries are moving fast to shore up semiconductor supply
05 Oct 2026
Indonesia came away from Vladivostok with a signed fertiliser agreement, yet the moment that went viral was a pen spinning
05 Oct 2026
When access to frontier AI models that promise to provide a decisive strategic advantage is withheld, adversaries may be tempted
05 Oct 2026
As Brazil votes, Washington’s revived Monroe Doctrine leans on coercion and transnational digital campaigning, exposing the limits of US influence
02 Oct 2026
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Australia confirmed it will host the next South Pacific Defence Ministers' Meeting, joined an
01 Oct 2026
Three days of ceremony in Washington produced no grand bargain, but that was never the point. Beijing came for something