26 November 2025

Why Australia’s pro-globalisation consensus endures

Australia’s post-pandemic politics may look more divided, but fears of a rising populist backlash are overstated. Demographics, institutions and economic geography still anchor the nation’s long-standing consensus in favour of openness, migration and global integration.

11 September 2025

Indonesia’s protests hit a brick wall of elite unity

The eruption of protests across Indonesia from 25 August expressed pent-up anger at the greed and hubris of political elites, prompting comparisons with the 1998 mass mobilisation that helped end Soeharto’s dictatorship.