Speech delivered on 10 April at AIIA NSW on “Russiaphobia and the Perils of a New Cold War’.   Thank you Ian Lincoln […]

Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya has passed the threshold for action under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. As a regional leader, Australia has a duty to act.

Since the beginning of the year, protests around the world—including in Australia—have drawn attention to the dispute over the use of the name Macedonia. What position should Canberra take?

On Sunday, the National People's Congress voted to extend the limit of Chinese presidential terms indefinitely. The vote was expected to go without a hitch and it did, with only two "no" votes and three abstentions. Xi Jinping’s hold over China is assured for many years to come.

Contrary to recent claims that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has become left-leaning and bureaucratic, DFAT serves the national interest in a way with which most Australians can be justly satisfied, and sometimes proud.

Australia can use its role on the Human Rights Council to provide leadership and take steps toward achieving the pillars on which it campaigned. 

After years of serving in and observing Russia from afar, a former diplomat explains the importance of understanding and respecting the nation and its leadership for what it is today and the prospects for East-West detente. 

How well did former diplomat Sir Keith Waller measure up against the three duties of the diplomat outlined by Arthur Balfour and the dictum of Talleyrand? An extract from his biography explains.

The lesson of a decade's state capture in South Africa may be that institutions are only as good as the people who respect them in letter and in spirit—and citizens and organised civil society should not limit active participation in political processes only to election time.

Tehran's 'Girl on Enghelab Street', silently waving her hijab above her unveiled head, has prompted a new round of protest against Iran's modesty laws. Is there the momentum for change?

What happens to international aid projects after the money is spent? A former aid worker revisited South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor to find out, and the results are not encouraging.