Australian Outlook Blog Posts

29 Mar 2017
The United Kingdom has now triggered Article 50 with the delivery of a letter from the British Prime Minister to
29 Mar 2017
Last week, Francisco Guterres became Timor-Leste’s first party-affiliated president. While the election broke new ground structurally and procedurally, the office
29 Mar 2017
In a love letter to New Zealand this week, the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang unintentionally exposed flaws in the Australia-China relationship.
28 Mar 2017
Divisions between Ankara, Washington and Moscow on Syria leave Turkey with few options. With the end of operation Eurphrates Shield and planning
28 Mar 2017
Islamic State is retreating but this does not signal the end of the Syrian conflict. For the conflict has never
27 Mar 2017
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was welcomed to Canberra last week with talk of beef and plates of chicken. The visit came
27 Mar 2017
Foreign minister Julie Bishop's visit to the Philippines earlier this month has added another question mark to Australia’s bid for
27 Mar 2017
Although the UK has long been on high terrorism alert, the Westminster attack's symbolic location shocked the world. However, the attack
27 Mar 2017
Regions are not some natural or objective outcome of geography. They are a social construct. The idea of a region
27 Mar 2017
Sixty years since the Treaty of Rome and 25 years since the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union finds little to
23 Mar 2017
While Mosul’s liberation from the Islamic State terrorist group appears closer than ever, Iraq’s challenges are far from over. The
22 Mar 2017
Wikileaks’ latest document dump revealed the extraordinary capacity of the CIA to hack into everyday devices. The continuing revelations about