Australian Outlook Blog Posts

14 Nov 2014
On the eve of the Brisbane 2014 Summit and Australia’s first presidency of the G20, Sherpa Dr Heather Smith discusses just
14 Nov 2014
National President John McCarthy's opening address at the Australian Institute of International Affairs National Conference, Canberra, 27 October 2014  
13 Nov 2014
Allow more members, risk unwieldiness. Stay exclusive, face irrelevance. Aim too big, lose focus. Aim too low, lose sight of
12 Nov 2014
A panel of experts offered advice on enhancing Australia's prosperity at the Australian Institute of International Affairs' National Conference. Hale
12 Nov 2014
Most days, there’s a story in the Indonesian news on ‘korupsi’ (corruption) involving Indonesian politics; needless to say, political parties
12 Nov 2014
Brisbane is the host city for the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit, an event that is being called the most significant
11 Nov 2014
The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week shows that Germany's story is not one long happily-ever-after.
11 Nov 2014
The APEC meeting in Beijing today shows the competition between rival free trade areas the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the
11 Nov 2014
APEC leaders meet today in Beijing , 25 years after the APEC process was launched in Canberra in 1989. According
10 Nov 2014
A number of leaders, including former prime minister Paul Keating, Australia’s former ambassador to China, AIIA National President John McCarthy
10 Nov 2014
According to the World Bank’s Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Bertrand Badré, the G20 of the future can play a powerful role
09 Nov 2014
Falling oil prices and the threat of sanctions have given the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security