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This week in Australian foreign affairs: President-Elect of Indonesia Prabowo in Australia; Joint ministerial statement on Australia-Indonesia Defence cooperations; Solomons International Assistance Force returned to Australia; inaugural Australia-India Strategic and Technology Policy Initiative (SATPI) grants announced, and more.

Tucker Carlson is touring across Australia. As the nation faces the growing problem of conspiracy theories depleting trust in institutions, Carlson's visit highlights a key source of this divisive propaganda: the Kremlin.

O'Keefe’s book on Australian foreign policymaking provides an extensive overview, especially of Australia’s major diplomatic relationships. This work goes far in canvasing the field of strategic culture as it exists in Australia.

Australia is a colonial country. The resulting unresolved grievances and challenges must be grappled with, but engagement between original and First Nation peoples can be a vehicle for Australia’s enlarged engagement in global politics. 

As a middle power in an increasingly volatile and contested region, Geoff Heriot argues that Australian Governments need to be more strategic about their approach to international broadcasting. This is if they are to effectively tackle contemporary diplomatic and security challenges.  

Australia has a great opportunity to boost its relationships with Southeast Asian and Pacific Islands countries with the implementation of a First Nations foreign policy doctrine. To ensure its success, the government must empower the diplomatic services. 

There is a much needed to debate to be had on energy security and, as a result, high ticket items such as the AUKUS submarines. Australia's media conglomerates need to do more to ensure journalism remains a gateway to such debates. 

With the Australian economy weathering the disruptive trade measures Beijing imposed in 2020, much triumphalism has followed. As one commentator put it, “While they hurt for a while, Australia found other markets.”

We are at a unique time in world history. This is a period of unprecedented turbulence stemming from a confluence of events that we have not witnessed in the past three-quarters of a century.

Since the early 1900s, women have used International Women’s Day (IWD) to demand equality and fight for equal pay, better workplace conditions, and the right to vote. In 2023, IWD continues to be a platform to advocate for women’s rights, and it is more important than ever to remember that this day is for, and about, ALL women, not just cisgender women.