Lowy Institute debate: Does AUKUS strengthen Australia's security?
Two prominent Australian strategists from opposite sides of the defence debate discuss the AUKUS partnership. Jennifer Parker makes the case...
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Pacific unity on the line: The 2026 PIF Leaders' Meeting
As the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting opens in Palau, the region faces a series of major challenges. These include a Chinese mi...
2026 Allan Gyngell Lecture: Senator Penny Wong
The 2026 Allan Gyngell Lecture was delivered by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Penny Wong. Senator Wong paid tribute to A...
The Pacific’s deep-sea fault line
As great powers race for the critical minerals scattered on the ocean floor, the Pacific is splitting into two camps — those betting o...
Southeast Asia’s supply chain squeeze
Southeast Asia has become the connector economy of the global tech race — building the chips, batteries, and clean energy components f...
Mission critical: Why India matters for Australia’s economic future
The Australia–India relationship has taken on growing significance in recent years, a point echoed by policy leaders as they welcomed...
Stabilisation with caveats: Former ambassador Graham Fletcher on the Australia–China relationship
China blocked trade, froze out ministers, and left lobsters rotting on the tarmac, and still couldn't force Australia to budge. In this epis...
Are we entering a new illiberal order?
The way authoritarian and illiberal states interact has changed. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have gone from defending themselves aga...
Preferred partners: India-Australia defence cooperation in a changing Indo Pacific
India matters to Australia more than ever — as a strategic partner, a major trading economy, and a fellow member of the Quad — a...
Neighbours, not family: Rethinking Australia’s Pacific story
Australia calls itself the Pacific's partner of choice. But is the relationship built on mutual understanding, or is it driven by Canberra's...
Pessimistic and unsafe: How Australians feel about the world today
Power politics is intensifying. Economies are sputtering. Living standards are falling. Societal change is dizzying. When Australians look a...
Dire straits: Strategic chokepoints in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait
What can Southeast Asia learn from the conflict in the Persian Gulf and should we be worried about the next maritime flashpoint closer to ho...
179 years to parity: The Indo-Pacific’s gender equality backslide
Global progress on gender equality is stalling, and in some places going backwards. The World Economic Forum estimates that, at current rate...
Australia's Pacific diplomatic blitz and China's missile test
It's been the busiest fortnight in Australia–Pacific diplomacy in recent memory. In the space of ten days, Australia signed the Nakama...
The India paradox: Trusted more, but not understood
As India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Australia for the third time, new Lowy Institute polling reveals a curious paradox: Australia...
The trust deficit: Why Australians' attitudes towards America and China are shifting
Australians increasingly see China as an economic partner rather than a security threat — while still bracing for it as a long-term mi...
Southeast Asia in the crossfire: Can ASEAN hold the line?
Southeast Asia has always sat at the intersection of great power competition, but the pressures bearing down on the region today are testing...
Whose rules, whose order? Southeast Asia and China’s growing power
Southeast Asia's economic and geostrategic significance is on the rise, but China's expanding dominance and a more transactional United Stat...
Pressure test: Can ASEAN meet the Indo-Pacific's security challenges?
Great power competition, maritime expansionism, and disruptions to global supply chains are heightening geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pa...
The nuclear arms race nobody is talking about
The New START Treaty has expired, China is quadrupling its nuclear arsenal, and the Trump administration has yet to prioritise arms control....