A change in the weather

Worsening weather events and other disasters mean that a framework for Australia-Pacific Island state cooperation and adaptation is needed more than ever.

A Marshall Plan to rebuild Ukraine

Putin’s calamitous invasion of Ukraine has wrecked dozens of towns and cities and wreaked hundreds of billions of dollars of damage. The western allies must help rebuild Ukraine when victory on the battlefield is achieved, just as the Marshall Plan helped rebuild western Europe after WW2.

Conflict in the South China Sea

China’s bellicose ambitions in the region constitute a real threat to the sovereignty and national security of democratic nations in the Indo-Pacific family.