Collisions attributed to poor on-board standards have damaged the US Navy’s credibility. The OOD admitted she had violated the commanding officer’s standing orders several times during the overnight ...

Australia and New Zealand must address the fallout from an appetite for illicit drugs. The Pacific is relying on it. The pandemic has not weakened demand for, or trade in, illicit drugs. This is ...

Warren Mundine is an Australian Aboriginal leader and the former National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He quit the Labor Party in 2012 and was appointed to the position of chairman ...

At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council last month, President Vladimir Putin announced proposed changes to the Kremlin’s nuclear doctrine. If implemented, the changes mark a significant departure ...

There is growing concern about the shifting geopolitical environment, the increasing use of military force to settle disputes, and what this means for Australia’s future security and prosperity.

Battered by sea and wind, and eventually destroyed by economics, much of Australia’s offshore oil and gas structures are coming down. The latest estimates from the Centre of Decommissioning Australia, ...

In 2017 the waters of the Persian Gulf are still choppy. There is US President Donald Trump's choice to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's bluster under President Hassan Rouhani and ongoing US ...

So declared the late former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, in 2013. Twelve years on, and “Japan is back” is ...

The border opened to foreign visitors for only a month before being sealed again. North Korean troops in Russia might be the reason. Non-Russian tourists had been granted access only to the Rason ...

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times ...

Dr Michael Fullilove AM is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute. Over the past two decades, Dr Fullilove has played a leading role in the establishment and development of the Lowy Institute.

Before he joined the Pacific Community (SPC) as Director-General on 23 January 2020, Stuart Minchin previously served as Chief of the Environmental Geoscience Division of Geoscience Australia, a ...