The bamboo ceiling is still very much in place Down Under
Our business sector lacks the skills to do business in Asia. And instead of improving, the situation is getting markedly worse.
11 June 2025
Go-ahead for new carbon bomb marks Australia as enemy of the region
In planning its future release of up to 80 billion tonnes of planet-heating carbon, Australia has committed itself to the destruction of nations and wrecking of big cities throughout the Indo-Pacific Region.
10 June 2025
As Keating advised, it's time for Australia to seek its security in Asia
The world America made for us is passing away. Its place is being taken by a new and harder post-American world, and we are at a loss to know what to make of it.
4 June 2025
Navigating a world of revisionist powers
We are living in a world with three leading great powers — all with explicitly revisionist aims when it comes to the international rules-based order.
28 May 2025
Our retreat from Asia has become a rout
On almost every measure, Australia has gone backwards on engaging with our region, and particularly with China, and it is time to do something about it.
21 May 2025
RCEP can aid in battle against global protectionism
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, created to promote open trade and regional integration, offers a powerful platform to resist rising global protectionism.
14 May 2025
Australia’s misunderstanding of the Asian Century
In October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a white paper titled Australia in the Asian Century.
7 May 2025
Brave new world
As Australia’s newly elected government seeks to navigate the shoals of President Donald Trump’s new world after the election on 3 May, it will behove us to think beyond our tariff concerns and AUKUS and focus on Southeast Asia.