Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia’s colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include ...

Matthew Bowes is a Senior Associate in Grattan’s Housing and Economic Security Program. He has previously worked at the Parliamentary Budget Office and Commonwealth Treasury in various roles analysing ...

In Asian media this week: Trump hints at changing great-power relationship. Plus: Beijing wresting control of the global narrative; Myanmar’s scam centre raids dismissed as a smokescreen; Prabowo ...

President Trump recently announced support for South Korea’s plans to build nuclear-powered submarines. This is a triumph for Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung, generally regarded as less close to ...

Australian politics is now descending into a theatre of science-denying absurdity. A mainstream party is now embedded in denial of clear scientific evidence that renewables are the lowest cost option ...

“We call on the world to send international teams to recover the bodies of the missing,” said the member of one civil society group. “We call on the world to provide the necessary equipment to recover ...

One of the upshots of US support for Israeli criminality over the past two years has been the cowardly position adopted by US supplicant states who feel wedged by realpolitik and morality. This ...

Australia abandoned its AI regulation plan. Now citizens are filling the ethical vacuum government created. In September 2024, then-industry minister Ed Husic released a consultation paper proposing ...

John Tilemann is a former Australian diplomat specialising in arms control and Asia-Pacific security affairs and an international civil servant with the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was ...

Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne A/Prof Milad Haghani is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Geospatial ...