Australia is playing a major role in international economic rule-making through its aggressive pursuit of preferential trade agreements. So how well do the trade rules it is promoting help advance Australia's foreign policy objectives?

Legal protection of whistleblowers is integral to ensuring that public bodies uphold transparency and accountability values. However, international organisations often do not provide the same protections as democratic states such as Australia.

Everything Australia wants to do as a country depends on its ability to understand the rest of the world. To that end, governments can, have and should lead public opinion.

If Australia insists only Chinese student voices critical of their government are authentic, a majority will be alienated and this would be an affront to Australian values.

There’s no doubt the way Australia engages with China is the most important issue in Australian foreign relations, combining complexity and consequence.

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar continues to escalate and the international community has yet to decide on an effective response.

While Sea Shepherd has announced it will no longer shadow Japan's whaling fleet, philosophy and law still offer a path to a possible resolution of the international dispute.

Introduction Urged by a national public awareness campaign in 2008, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) formally committed […]

Australia is in a contest with France and Spain for a place on the United Nations Human Rights Council for a two-year term […]

This paper is part of the Australian Journal of International Affairs’ 2016 Federal Election Special and outlines the Coalition’s approach to international affairs. […]