Australian Outlook Blog Posts

01 Jul 2025
South Korea’s recent political crisis, culminating in the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol and an early presidential election, has exposed
01 Jul 2025
The promise of People Power has given way to elite rivalries and political survival games. As the Duterte-Marcos alliance fractures,
17 Jul 2025
Australia’s hardline immigration model—built on deterrence, detention, deportation, and demonisation—has gained international attention, but at what cost? As other nations
27 Jun 2025
Once defined by a singular focus on the United States, Colombia’s foreign policy is evolving to embrace China as a
27 Jun 2025
This week in Australian foreign affairs: Marles in UK and Netherlands for NATO and Defence talks; new military support for
27 Jun 2025
The assault on Iran is less about nuclear urgency and more about political necessity. For Netanyahu, existential conflict abroad means
26 Jun 2025
President Donald Trump’s decision to directly join Israel in its war against Iran and bomb Iranian nuclear facilities was inevitable.
26 Jun 2025
The second Trump administration is redefining the US commitment to NATO—not by exiting, but by coercively urging European allies to
25 Jun 2025
The May 2025 Indo-Pakistan drone conflict revealed the operational limits of loitering munitions in suppressing enemy air defences. In future
25 Jun 2025
US involvement in Israel’s escalating military campaign against Iran raises urgent questions about international legal norms. At stake is whether
24 Jun 2025
With Iran under siege and no real support from its major partners, China’s passive posture is drawing criticism from across
24 Jun 2025
While US government rhetoric is very supportive of the use of commercial technology for defence, acquisition professionals are incentivised not