Australian Outlook Blog Posts

23 Oct 2015
The fact that infectious disease outbreaks have more reach in our increasingly globalised world is not very contentious. However, up
19 Oct 2015
The Australian Institute of International Affairs is one of our nation’s premier think tanks and contributes a great deal to
19 Oct 2015
Kofi Annan talked about “problems without passports”: problems which are transnational, even global. They are the problems which threaten our
13 Oct 2015
While governments worldwide strive to maintain or increase economic growth, an international movement is asking the G20 to plot a
08 Oct 2015
The United States has been focusing much of its cyber diplomacy around criticism of China’s espionage. Australia has been echoing
08 Oct 2015
Nepal promulgated its federal Constitution on September 20, defying India’s diplomatic efforts. Since then, India has stepped up its threats
06 Oct 2015
In 2011, at the height of piracy attacks along the Somali coastline and the Gulf of Aden, 237 separate attacks were
06 Oct 2015
Mustafa Hamid and Leah Farrall brush aside the inconsistencies that illustrate the myth of jihad in order to clarify the
01 Oct 2015
As US President Obama and Russian President Putin met this week in the US to discuss the fight against Islamic
01 Oct 2015
This was never going to be an easy meeting between the leaders of one of the oldest democracies and the
01 Oct 2015
Non-state actors in Gaza and Egypt have exploited smuggling networks to acquire arms, but they face new challenges.  The Arab Turmoil
30 Sep 2015
Fifty years ago, on September 30, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century took place on Australia’s doorstep. Following