Australian Outlook Blog Posts

06 Feb 2026
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Australia condemns the Taliban for suspending Embassy operations, sanctions announced in response to Iran
05 Feb 2026
Will the US-Iran ‘peace talks succeed or fail? Given the mix of personalities and national interests involved, we just don’t
05 Feb 2026
A 10-minute video on X has been viewed eleven million times in the past six months. In it, senior members
05 Feb 2026
Indonesia is undergoing a profound and strategic recalibration in its approach to global diplomacy and geopolitics. For decades, ASEAN centrality
05 Feb 2026
The latest revelations about Elon Musk’s xAI platform, Grok, should concern far more than the tech sector. According to new
05 Feb 2026
Canberra is 16,000 kilometres from Copenhagen. Australia and Denmark are globally poles apart, and yet because of their polar territories,
05 Feb 2026
'Rethinking Techno-Politics in the Digital Age: Global Technology Relations and Security' offers an interdisciplinary framework that delves into the symbiotic
05 Feb 2026
The historian Barbara Tuchman viewed the map of history as a lattice work of marches of folly. Mark Carney recently
05 Feb 2026
Rather than importing digital rulebooks from great powers, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs a model shaped by
05 Feb 2026
Indonesia’s democracy is in a declining state. Day by day, it shows no signs of turning back to that of
29 Jan 2026
This month the Australian Institute of International Affairs mourns the death of Geoffrey (Geoff) Miller AO FAIIA, one of Australia’s most distinguished diplomats and
29 Jan 2026
In Sudan's civil war, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have reportedly checked the sex of babies, then, if they are