Australian Outlook Blog Posts

23 May 2017
The recently reinstated US Global Gag Rule will have far-reaching consequences for women's health and gender equality. The ongoing imbalance prevents
23 May 2017
Australia is straddling a defence technology divide between the US and China. Taking better care of homegrown defence industry start-ups may
21 May 2017
East Timor Intervention: A Retrospective on INTERFET, edited by John Blaxland, is an exemplary piece of work and recommended reading
16 May 2017
To great fanfare, Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated as French president on 14 May and spent his first full day in office meeting
16 May 2017
The UK’s coming departure from the European Union has breathed new life into the concept of the Anglosphere. While it
16 May 2017
The name has been changed, but what is now China’s Belt and Road Initiative is still far from uniformly welcomed.
16 May 2017
Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative offers significant opportunities for enhanced economic cooperation between China and Australia, but policymakers in both
16 May 2017
As President Trump embarks on his first foreign trip, his unusual approach to US diplomacy will be evident. The preference for
16 May 2017
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed that Australia is considering a US request to increase its military commitment to Afghanistan.
16 May 2017
Australia seems to have avoided the worst of the latest global ransomware, WannaCry. The digital disruption, which some have linked to
16 May 2017
Rather than distancing Indonesia from ASEAN, as some claim, Jokowi has taken a pragmatic approach that supports ASEAN while acknowledging
16 May 2017
International relations experts and practitioners have tended to frame the responsibility to protect principle (R2P) as a radical departure from