Anthony Milner
Anthony Milner is a senior adviser to Asialink at the University of Melbourne and a visiting professor at the University of Malaya.
Anthony's recent articles
6 March 2024
Why ASEAN-Australia summits matter
The ASEAN-Australia leaders summit in Melbourne offers the opportunity for Australia to embrace ASEANs inclusive regionalism and the organisations centrality in mediating the Indo-Pacific struggle between the great powers.
28 January 2021
Lessons from our diplomacy in Asia in the 1930s
Scott Morrison says he has been revisiting the 1930s, a period in which Australia faced an existential threat. The strategies of conservative policy makers of the 1930s are worth examining by today's leaders so we don't repeat the disasters of that time.
23 July 2020
Asia is more than the US and China but we don't understand Asia.
Our Asia expertise is not strengthening but in decline. A decrease in research funding for Asia-related topics, a fall in Asian language learning by English-speaking students, a growing neglect of Asian histories and cultures and a serious threat to our library acquisitions these are dangerous trends at a time when we must have a sophisticated not superficial knowledge of Asian developments.