• Australia must lead in the Pacific

    Peter Jennings     |      March 27, 2022

    Beijing’s seeks a string of Pacific military bases to prevent the United States moving forces across the sea and closer to the Chinese mainland. This is a modern version of Japan’s wartime strategy, and the Solomons is only the beginning.

  • Climate change in the Indo-Pacific in 2035

    Robert Glasser     |      February 22, 2022

    The impacts of climate change on the Indo-Pacific, already the most exposed region in the world to climate hazards and home to the world’s fastest growing populations, economies and geopolitical rivalries, will be profound.

  • Rethinking Australia’s regional engagement

    Gillian Savage     |      February 18, 2022

    We need to embrace uncertainty, engage with complexity and break down the silos. Our economic prosperity, national resilience and security depend upon it.

  • Assessing cyber resilience in the South Pacific

    Bart Hogeveen     |      February 17, 2022

    Australia, New Zealand, the US and others have been supporting the digital development of Pacific economies. The Tonga story shows that these efforts need to account for resiliency, including coping mechanisms for shorter or longer periods of disruptions in connectivity.

  • Australia in the Pacific

    Graeme Dobell     |      February 14, 2022

    Historian Ian Hoskins’s new book “Australia and the Pacific: a history” offers a sweeping account of Australia’s role in shaping – for good and ill – the current geo-political state of the Pacific.

  • Pacific resilience tested in 2021

    Tess Newton Cain     |      February 8, 2022

    The resilience of Pacific Island Nations and the resolve of their communities were tested on numerous fronts in 2021, but overall a range of heath, geo-political and environmental challenges have been faced with some success.

  • Follow the money in the South Pacific

    Graeme Dobell     |      February 1, 2022

    Australia’s ‘Pacific Pivot’ looks to counter the increasing economic, diplomatic and military influence of China in the South Pacific.

  • Tongan eruption highlights lack of coordination in regional response

    Joanne Wallis     |      January 30, 2022

    Allied security cooperation in the Pacific has been tested by two recent crises: the Solomon Island riots in November 2021 and the volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga earlier this month.

  • Tonga explosion highlights Pacific cable vulnerability

    Dale Dominey-Howes     |      January 20, 2022

    The damage caused by the volcanic eruption in Tonga highlights the potential danger posed to submarine internet cables connecting Australia and the Pacific to the rest of the world.

  • 2021 in the Pacific

    Kerryn Baker     |      January 18, 2022

    The Pacific Islands saw dramatic change in 2021 with the threatened exit of Micronesian states from the Pacific Islands Forum, the fall of the region’s longest serving political leader, growing geo-political tensions and the impact of COVID-19.

  • China muscles into Pacific marine reserve

    Richard Herr     |      November 18, 2021

    The Kiribati government is removing protection from a vast marine reserve to rake in fishing revenue from China.

  • India steps up to support Pacific island resilience

    Lisa Singh     |      November 15, 2021

    Australia’s support to the India-led IRIS will go further to strengthen Australia-India bilateral ties and help promote a stable prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific.