Environmental arguments against coal don’t work. It's time to mobilise a new national interest against Australia’s harmful addiction - the national security interest.

In responding to the dreaded Coronavirus outbreak, governments on a war footing face a policy dilemma: remedy or overkill? It is right and important, always, to be sensitive to the possibility that government action might do more harm than good.

The term “Indo-Pacific” has become increasingly present in Australian foreign policy discourses, particularly in terms of democracy promotion.  Yet perceptions of exceptionalism can have the opposite effect.