Australian Outlook Blog Posts

28 Aug 2026
This week in Australian Foreign Affairs, major developments towards AUKUS capabilities, the Foreign Minister confirms the government’s response to the
28 Aug 2026
After 12 months of the Lee Jae Myung administration, North Korean messaging towards Seoul has shown little sign of fundamental
27 Aug 2026
Sceptics doubt Beijing will part with its J-35 stealth fighter, especially given its own expanding priorities. However that reads the
27 Aug 2026
The US-Saudi nuclear agreement places Riyadh's facilities under American bilateral oversight rather than the International Atomic Energy Agency's intrusive inspections
27 Aug 2026
As Putin’s desperation in Ukraine becomes ever starker, Russia’s actions against NATO have become increasingly aggressive and, perhaps most concerningly,
27 Aug 2026
As the Women, Peace and Security agenda loses ground to a global gender backlash, ASEAN is quietly building it out.
27 Aug 2026
On 24 November 2026, Bangladesh will formally exit the UN's least-developed-country category, taking with it the trade preferences that carry
27 Aug 2026
President Tokayev's call to "freeze" the war came not from Kyiv or Brussels but from inside Russia's own security architecture.
27 Aug 2026
Beyond the initiative’s obvious aim of securing the US’ and its allies' economic position in the AI Cold War with
25 Aug 2026
The recent visit of the Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, to India was the first official visit since assuming office
25 Aug 2026
The significance of the Mecca Agreement lies less in its collective-defence than in germinating a security architecture seeking greater strategic
25 Aug 2026
Treaties and donor institutions have repeatedly failed to secure Pacific sovereignty, at times even eroding it, as they seek to