Australian Outlook Blog Posts

22 Feb 2017
Recent demonstrations in Mexico against US President Trump are indicative of both anti-US sentiment and dissatisfaction with the government of Mexican President Peña
22 Feb 2017
With Brexit moving through the British parliament, the UK government needs to consider how it will approach trade agreements once it
22 Feb 2017
Trump's campaign and presidency have been dogged by allegations of Russian collusion; the departure of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is
20 Feb 2017
Australia will not attend next month's United Nations summit to negotiate a global treaty to ban nuclear weapons. This is a
20 Feb 2017
Recent cyberattacks and hacks in America and Ukraine have exposed the vulnerability of some of the world’s most sophisticated cybersecurity
19 Feb 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has been visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh this week, gathering more
19 Feb 2017
November 2012 witnessed China’s second orderly succession of power, with Xi Jinping taking control of both the Chinese Communist Party
19 Feb 2017
From the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and a growing number of bilateral agreements, international trade deals are
16 Feb 2017
The last month has featured a mixed medley of meetings between US President Donald Trump and various world leaders. Unfortunately
16 Feb 2017
Theresa May's recent success in the sympathetic UK House of Commons was hardly ever in doubt but Brexiteers may be congratulating
16 Feb 2017
The African Union’s 28th summit, held in Addis Ababa from 22 to 31 January 2017, saw the election of the
15 Feb 2017
In Indonesia, seven provinces, 76 districts and 18 cities, including Jakarta, are held simultaneous regional elections this week. But Indonesian