The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons prohibits the development, production, possession, transfer, receipt, testing, hosting, use, and threat of use of nuclear weapons. Today it becomes law – the most significant multilateral development in nuclear arms control since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force in 1970.

Adrian Walsh is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains around the world, while political movements in the United States and Europe that predate the pandemic have raised […]

The Kingdom of Eswatini, the small, landlocked southern African country that shares borders with South Africa and Mozambique, has been in political turmoil since May. The country is Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

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Tensions across the Taiwan Strait are rising and are potentially more serious than crises in the 1990s and even the 1950s. Military activity […]

Agenda Day One: 23 November 2021  Keynote Address 1:00 PM-2:30 PM AEDT Senator David Fawcett, Chair, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and […]

For months, Australia was lauded as a success story in curbing COVID-19. Now Australia must focus on removing the negativity clouding its international image.

In 2014, Kenya started to construct a new railway to connect the Mombasa Port with the interior and on to landlocked Uganda and Rwanda. Today, Kenya is paying through the teeth for the infrastructure project it once promoted as a “game changer.”

In recent months, the discourse on mental health has made media headlines around the world. Mental illness affects almost one fifth of the world’s population, however there are significant treatment gaps between the Global North and South.

AUKUS sets back Australia’s development as a nation and its national security. Although it is hard to judge an agreement in its first month, AUKUS is unlikely to make Australia safer.