Australian Outlook Blog Posts

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
21 Aug 2026
This week in Australian Foreign Affairs, the Australian Government reached a major milestone in Pacific connectivity with all Pacific Islands
18 Aug 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is still shut, and the world continues to pay the price. As talk turns to tolls
13 Aug 2026
India's Cockroach Janta Party pressured the education minister to resign after nationwide protests over a leaked medical entrance examination. Attempts
13 Aug 2026
ASEAN’s renewed engagement with Myanmar may look like a pragmatic effort to revive dialogue, but it also exposes the limits
12 Aug 2026
India-China relations are entering a new phase in which economic cooperation and diplomatic engagement are increasingly conditioned on stability along
12 Aug 2026
When officials talk about strategic infrastructure, they generally mean ports, shipping lanes, semiconductors, or key minerals. But one of the