Waves of foreign investment and trade have been essential features of Australian development. In our burgeoning relationship with China, we have for the first time an agency of the Australian government effectively undermining our relationship with our major trading partner.

The number of countries that find the Indo-Pacific a useful way of interpreting the world is growing. But each country has its own Indo-Pacific.

The Indonesia-Australia relationship has warmed up since the rocky years of the Soeharto era. To continue progress towards a true “soulmate” relationship between close neighbours, cross-cultural understanding must be cultivated through people-to-people contact.

The Australian Institute of International Affairs has recently been featured across a number of media outlets. National Executive Director Melissa Conley Tyler wrote […]

Vladimir Putin’s portrayal in the Western media often resembles that of a comic book villain. The Russian President […]

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.