Australian Outlook Blog Posts

08 Apr 2014
Andrew Robb has worked hard to create the second foreign policy success of the Abbott government: a free trade agreement
04 Apr 2014
The recent Nuclear Security Summit held in the Netherlands achieved notable progress towards global nuclear security, but the long-term goal
04 Apr 2014
While Russia and America have different interests at stake in the Ukraine, this has not prevented both Moscow and Washington reaching out to
04 Apr 2014
Expert Panel-Fellows of the AIIA Hilary Charlesworth FAIIA-Professor, ANU; Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice Jocelyn Chey AM
04 Apr 2014
Once upon a time, Melbourne topped the vote for most livable city. Eat your heart out, Melburnians. According to the
02 Apr 2014
This week the International Court of Justice (ICJ) upheld Australia’s challenge to Japan’s Antarctic whaling program. The ICJ concluded by 12
02 Apr 2014
Decades after formal barriers were removed, women remain demonstrably underrepresented in senior positions in Australia’s international affairs. A number of
01 Apr 2014
The notorious telegram of 1945 which peremptorily ordered young Australian diplomat Patrick Shaw to a third post in as many
01 Apr 2014
Feared, admired and often lampooned, Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was a powerful figure in Australian political and intellectual circles from the
31 Mar 2014
Can the military restore order in Egypt?  Field Marshall Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has quit his military post to run officially
30 Mar 2014
As C. Raja Mohan observes in the preface to this book, India has had many ‘atomic avatars’: it has been
29 Mar 2014
It is now three years since the Syria conflict began and the humanitarian situation for millions of people across the