It’s a great honour to have been invited to deliver the annual Lowy Lecture. The Lowy Institute has been an important part of our national discourse for 20 years. It is a great gift to Australia from ...

I write as someone who has spent decades in the guts of Defence, technology, and government. Not as a cheerleader for shiny toys, nor as an apologist for bureaucratic drift. Artificial intelligence is ...

Shortly after the latest near-collision between Philippine and Chinese maritime forces in the South China Sea last month, Manila conducted joint drills with Australia, Canada and the United States.

It was warm and humid as I stepped out of my vehicle to greet the commander of the Australian Army’s elite 3rd Brigade at the High Range training area near Townsville, Queensland, last week. The ...

Malaysia’s approach in navigating great power rivalry since the Cold War has largely been based on the principles of non-alignment, neutralism, and equidistance. However, two contrasting snapshots of ...

Vietnam has transformed itself at a rapid clip from one of the poorest countries in the world in the late 1980s to a lower middle-income country. More recently, it has been the most obvious ...

As Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was about to call a national election on 28 March, a Chinese state-owned marine research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao was quietly transiting Bass Strait.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected in Papua New Guinea this weekend to sign an agreement clearing the way for PNG’s agricultural exports to enter the Chinese market. This step has already ...

Discreet, high-stakes negotiations between Washington and the Taliban burst into public view last week when US President Donald Trump declared that America was “trying” to regain control of Bagram ...

For Pacific Island countries, securing enough money to deal with the consequences of climate change has proved an arduous task. Despite facing existential threats from rising seas and collapsing ...

Southeast Asia is one of the most geopolitically diverse and contested regions of the world. But does China or the United States have more influence? And is it even accurate to describe the region’s ...

Papua New Guinea and Australia didn’t sign a long anticipated Mutual Defence Treaty today. Instead, the prime ministers from both countries issued a last-minute communique, stating that the text had ...