Reading Room: Perspectives on Australia-Turkey Relations By Dr John Vecihi Basarin OAM 30 August 2016The failed coup attempt of 15 July 2016 and what happened afterwards has made Michalis Michael’s book, which in part focuses on the […] Read More
Reading Room: The Mandibles By Melissa Conley Tyler FAIIA 23 August 2016Fiction can provide a window into current anxieties and possible futures. This chronicle of the trials of a fictional US family achieves both. […] Read More
When Nauru Almost Moved to Queensland By Professor Jane McAdam 23 August 2016Nauru is best known to most Australians as the remote Pacific island where asylum seekers who arrive by boat are sent. What is […] Read More
Graeme Dobell FAIIA 21 August 2016Graeme Dobell, a journalist since 1971, has spent his career reporting on Australian and international politics, foreign affairs and defence, and the Asia […] Read More
Manus To Close, But Where To For The Detainees? By Dr Amy Maguire 18 August 2016The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre—one of the two key sites of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime—will close. A date is not set, […] Read More
Terrorism: What do Attacks in Europe Mean for Australia? By Jacinta Carroll 18 August 2016Australians have been horrified and mesmerised by the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Brussels, Munich, Paris and Nice. Cities that are so familiar to […] Read More
UN Secretary-General: The Race So Far By Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur FAIIA 17 August 2016One of the certainties over who will be the next United Nations secretary-general is that it will not be Kevin Rudd. Despite the perception […] Read More
Explosive Toll of Remnants of War By Natalya Wells 16 August 2016Anti-personnel landmines and other explosive remnants of war continue to endanger civilian populations around the world long after the conflicts have moved on. […] Read More
Cautious Response to Chinese Energy Investment By Colin Chapman FAIIA 10 August 2016This week, Treasurer Scott Morrison halted the sale of NSW electricity provider Ausgrid to the Chinese and Hong Kong bidders on national security grounds. This follows […] Read More
Hidden Power: Organised Crime in International Politics By Dr James Cockayne 10 August 2016All too often criminal mafias determine political outcomes by influencing elections, changing constitutions, fomenting terrorism, waging war and even negotiating peace deals when […] Read More
Who is WikiLeaks Working For? By Luke Heemsbergen 10 August 2016There was global media coverage when WikiLeaks recently published the Democratic National Conference email archive and the so-called Erdoğan emails belonging to Turkey’s […] Read More