Feminist foreign policy provides a lens through which we can see climate action as a shared priority and human security issue. Australia should use feminist climate diplomacy to authentically listen to diverse stakeholders, analyse justice issues rigorously, and involve bottom-up approaches in its bid to co-host COP31.

Women’s meaningful participation in peace operations is critical to building sustainable peace. Yet, women continue to be marginalised, especially in senior roles, because of organisational, practical, work culture, and gender normative barriers.

Making stronger connections between how Australia does development at home and how it supports the development of Pacific partners is not just the right thing to do. Australia’s geopolitical circumstances demand a more collaborative path, one where shared decision-making sits at the heart of everything Australia says, designs, and does.

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.

This week in Australian foreign affairs: China’s Premier Li visits Australia; ministers in Papua New Guinea for 30th Australia-Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forum; additional support for PNG landslide recovery; new science partnerships announced for Pacific and Southeast Asia, and more.

Criminal deportations were recently thrown into the spotlight in Australia, again. While detailed discussions about deportation provide an arena for domestic political point-scoring, we should also understand how our international relations with the places that receive Australia’s deportated criminals are affected.

While the flurry over Vladimir Putin’s visit with Xi Jinping last May caused a gush among many media outlets, the public declarations of an enduring alliance is more of the same old bluster rather than a serious démarche. A longer view of Sino-Russo relations tells a far more serpentine story.

Jack A. Jarmon is a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. He was USAID technical advisor for the Russian Federation during its […]

This week in Australian foreign affairs: China's Premier Li to visit Australia; new investment for Women's Asian Cup; additional humanitarian assistance for Gaza; Australia re-elected to the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and more.

The metropolis of Karachi is known as “Mini Pakistan,” with people from every part of country uniting in a sharing of unique languages, cultures, cuisines, and customs. It is also a city with many problems, from water crisess to electricity outages, and a population explosion that contributes to burgeoning crime. 

The Australian government is shifting its funding from fossil fuels to green energy, yet it still allows foreign governments to finance fossil fuel projects in Australia. This incoherence impedes the nation's transition to renewable energy and contradicts its climate goals.