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Australia’s anti-climactic ASEAN Summit
Nick Bisley | March 30, 2018The ASEAN Summit in Sydney offered many words but little action. If Australia wants to make Southeast Asia the ‘strategic fulcrum’ of its Indo-Pacific strategy, it needs to look well beyond ASEAN as its means.
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More competition could risk human service delivery
Cassandra Goldie | March 29, 2018The Australian Council of Social Service argues that introducing further competition into human services provision carries significant risk, in response to the Productivity Commission’s report.
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What is Australia’s strategic plan B?
Mike Scrafton | March 27, 2018Australian strategic policy has not accounted for a failure of the post-war international order, even as the threats to it grow. Now, as elements of that order crumble, Australia has no coherent alternative to simply hoping against hope that the past will persist into the future.
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Finding the right balance between China and the USA
Paul Keating | March 25, 2018Former Prime Minster Paul Keating argues that the much maligned Donald Trump may have found the right approach to managing relations with China.
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New paths or missteps at the ASEAN summit?
Tony Milner | March 25, 2018Anthony Milner charts the success and failures of the ASEAN summit in Sydney and argues that Australia must play the long game if we aren’t to face regional isolation as American dominance begins to fade.
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How Oz politics works
Graeme Dobell | March 22, 2018A twenty year veteran of the Canberra Parliament reporting scene, Graeme Dobell takes a wry look at the cut throat world of Australian politics, a place where you’re always on your own and, in the end, you’ll let everyone down.
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ASEAN and Australia peer from the summit
Graeme Dobell | March 20, 2018Southeast Asia is where Australia’s geography collides with our economic and perhaps political future. Australia has always thought ASEAN a good thing – the harder question for us is what to do with it.
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Decoding the ASEAN declaration
Greg Earl | March 19, 2018As the ASEAN summit wraps up, the Sydney Declaration has subtly taken Australia’s relationship with its closest Asian neighbours into new territory after a diverse week of engagement from soccer to social entrepreneurs.
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The mundane reality of ‘Think Tanks’
Keshia Jacotine | March 19, 2018Think tanks are a source of both fascination and fear for the media. The reality of efforts to influence policy-making is far more prosaic and think tanks continue to evolve to survive in a changing political landscape.
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The ‘Game of Thrones’ in our own backyard
Allan Gyngell | March 19, 2018Allan Gyngell, the National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, discussed the challenges posed by China’s growth at a recent NZIIA conference and warned that ‘winter is coming’.
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Xi’s Chinese power grab weakens global democracy
Thom Dixon | March 18, 2018Xi Jinping has rewritten the Chinese constitution to install himself as President for life and his ruthless power grab has wider implications for democracy in Asia and the rest of the world.
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The future of ASEAN
Marty Natalegawa | March 18, 2018Over five decades, ASEAN has helped to strengthen Southeast Asian political and economic relations, but important changes are required to ensure it remains relevant, including the addition of at least one more member state.