Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced an historic treaty with Nauru President David Adeang, securing the financial future of the Pacific nation – or at least for the next five years ...

Australia is still conducting disaster diplomacy in a reactive, myopic and piecemeal fashion, mostly bilaterally.

While North Korea has yet to respond to the ongoing turmoil in the South, it’s a “Hermit Kingdom” in name only – Pyongyang will be watching with rapt attention. The declaration of martial law last ...

It is unlikely that Ream Naval Base in Cambodia will be a Chinese military base or outpost such as the facility in Djibouti fully operated by the People’s Liberation Army. However, China could gain ...

Negotiations towards a global plastic treaty adjourned in Busan last week without delivering an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution. The introduction of ambitious caps to the ...

There is a haunting predictability in the way markets shrug off geopolitical risk. Oil prices languish near their 52-week low, even as tensions in the Middle East simmer toward a boil. For anyone who ...

Sydney Morning Herald national security correspondent Matthew Knott paired two unlikely stories yesterday. The headline to his piece reads: “Australia fires Tomahawk missile for first time, spends ...

A friend who knows my interest in Chinese maritime power gave me a scale model kit of China’s new aircraft carrier, Fujian, for my birthday. It’s made of interlocking plastic bricks which you have to ...

Such a capability has proven crucial to the success of several externally orientated violent campaigns undertaken by jihadist actors. For example, the spate of violence against Europe by ISIS in the ...

New Delhi-based independent researcher and foreign affairs columnist. She is currently working as a security risk analyst with Horizon Intelligence, a Belgium-based threat intelligence firm. She was a ...

In recent Australian maritime security conversations, it would be fair to say that submarines have featured fairly prominently. Although the tenor of sub talk this week still proved head-turning, when ...