Australian Outlook Blog Posts

18 Sep 2025
In northeast Nigeria, years of conflict, climate shocks, and shrinking humanitarian aid have left millions displaced and facing acute food
18 Sep 2025
The BRICS’ New Development Bank and Contingent Reserve Arrangement challenge Western dominance by funding development with fewer strings attached and
16 Sep 2025
With the African Growth and Opportunity Act set to expire, Washington’s paralysis risks eroding U.S. economic influence in Africa, undermining
15 Sep 2025
President Marcos Jr.’s call for lifestyle checks has collided with citizen-driven online exposés, where luxury cars, designer bags, and “nepo
12 Sep 2025
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Wong condemns Israeli strikes on Qatar as a sovereignty violation amid ceasefire mediation efforts;
11 Sep 2025
Modern diplomacy extends far beyond foreign ministries and ambassadors, as domestic officials, civil society groups, and business leaders increasingly engage
11 Sep 2025
Indonesia's largest wave of protests in nearly a decade forced President Prabowo Subianto to cancel a key diplomatic trip to
11 Sep 2025
In "Tracing the Undersea Dragon: Chinese SSBN Programme and the Indo-Pacific", Commodore (Dr) Amit Ray sets out with the ambitious
11 Sep 2025
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir with outgoing US CENTCOM Chief Gen. Michael E. Kurilla in Tampa, Florida. (Source:
10 Sep 2025
This work by Allan Behm shares its locus with other works that deal with the Australian-US alliance; it is marked
10 Sep 2025
‘The biggest purchase order in history’ is how one former mining CEO describes the energy transition’s demand for minerals and
09 Sep 2025
What started as predictions of a nail-bitingly close election in Samoa turned into a stunning landslide for FAST party leader