With fewer Chinese finances available and less demand from Pacific countries, geopolitical competition is opening up. On the aid front, it might be less than most assume. The Lowy Institute Pacific ...

Knowing a true number of residents is crucial to set development goals – for local government and foreign partners. Regardless of the questions raised about the UN study, the controversy showed the ...

The trilateral security partnership AUKUS continues to dominate Australian national security debates, and for good reason given the $368 billion price tag. Yet a more fundamental question remains ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has been on the fringes of economic discussion for a decade or more, but it has recently moved from the periphery to become part of the everyday discussion. Why this ...

Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board. In 2015 he was the Telstra Distinguished International Fellow at the Lowy ...

Major General McNarn was the Director of the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) from 2005 to 2008 and was concurrently Head of Strategic Operations Intelligence. He was the Australian ...

There will be a tendency in Australia to write off the American night raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro as an isolated incident in South America with little local relevance. A ...

The first Trump administration aspired to acquire Greenland; the second is now seriously increasing the pressure. Greenland, a large island in the Arctic, has been part of Denmark since 1814. Today, ...

There has been much written about Australia’s high-risk fuel security situation, noting that around 90% of the liquid fuel we use is derived from oil sourced from overseas, with most commentary ...

At the COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November 2025, Indonesia arrived with a pipeline of around 90 million tonnes of potential carbon credits, expecting nearly US$960 million in transactions. Yet ...

Stephen Grenville's excellent column on the American critical reaction to Dan Wang's bestselling book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, prompts me to recommend Wang's 2025 China letter, ...