18 October 2024: The Week in Australian Foreign Affairs
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Albanese reaffirms Australia’s commitment to ASEAN centrality; Abrams tanks to be sent to Ukraine; new humanitarian assistance to Myanmar, and more.
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Albanese reaffirms Australia’s commitment to ASEAN centrality; Abrams tanks to be sent to Ukraine; new humanitarian assistance to Myanmar, and more.
There must be a reconciliation between the human rights agenda and current humanitarian realities. In Gaza, the daily struggle is frigtening, and there appears no end or peace plan in sight.
In a recent piece for Australian Outlook Graeme Gill writes that I and others “dispute the importance of NATO,” claiming it has no role in the current conflict, while we “rarely interrogate the evidence relating to [Russia’s] fear of Ukraine joining NATO.” In the article below, I respond to these claims.