Professor David Lowe* gives himself the brief of addressing the newly installed Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne on the next steps for the New Colombo Plan … Purpose Minister, you asked for advice about how best to develop the New Colombo Plan in order to achieve your policy aim of deepening […]
Julie Bishop
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Few political matters could claim to be more incendiary than Australia’s actions in the Timor Sea over recent decades. The media emphasis on the maritime boundary dispute over access to oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea has led to a commonly held view that Australian oil interests began […]
By Honae Cuffe* Executive Summary For much of the twenty-first century so far, Australian foreign policy has been centred on a hedging of bets, orchestrating a careful balancing act between the US and China and the security and economic interests each embodies. The unfolding US-China economic conflict is the latest […]