Australian Outlook Blog Posts

04 Jan 2017
The recent outbreaks of disease across the developing world have provided a valuable lesson in the harm that could be caused by
04 Jan 2017
Japan is debating formal revision of its 'Peace Constitution'. Recent legal reinterpretations and new security laws allow the Japanese Self-Defence
03 Jan 2017
Islam is sometimes referred to as being incompatibile with the international state system. This belief is based on events such
03 Jan 2017
Official and unofficial data confirms that the Chinese economy stabilised in the middle of 2016. But there is still a
03 Jan 2017
Autonomous technologies are rapidly advancing in multiple industries; from transport to manufacturing, artificial intelligence is gaining steam. Military AI, however,
03 Jan 2017
While China seeks stability on its periphery, North Korea continues to upset regional security with domestic problems and a nuclear
31 Dec 2015
The central mantra of the Abbott Coalition was that it would be “more Jakarta, less Geneva”. In a range of
31 Dec 2015
The war against Islamic State (IS) is one of the most pressing security issues facing the world today, and combating
30 Dec 2015
In December 2013 a small boy in a remote Guinean village and three of his family members died from a
29 Dec 2015
What you may have missed in 2015: the Zika virus has prompted a state of emergency and a recommendation that
29 Dec 2015
In December 2015 Greg Sheridan, the Foreign Editor at The Australian, spoke at AIIA Victoria on the Cold War's  critical impact on our
28 Dec 2015
Every five years, Vietnamese dare to hope that this time, the ruling Communist Party will take a chance on change. Four