MH17 Coroner’s Inquest: More Questions than Answers
An inquest into the deaths of the Australian passengers on board MH17 when it was shot down over Eastern Ukraine on 14 July 2014 was held in Melbourne, Australia, on 15 and 16 December 2015. The inquest was notable for a number of reasons, most...
Australia and the New Silk Roads
In January 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder, the director of the London School of Economics, presented a paper to the Royal Geographical Society. The paper was entitled “The Geographical Pivot of History.” In his presentation...
Australia's Foreign Policy: Time for a Rethink
On Hiroshima Day this year the recently retired Director-General of Australia’s premier spy agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO, Mr David Irvine, addressed a meeting organized by the Griffith University (Brisbane Asia Institute...
On Political Aspects of Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region
The complexity of the situation emerging in the Asia-Pacific Region is manifested in a contradictory interweaving of political and economic regional trends, the motivation of which is mainly based on the rapid emergence of China as one of the leading...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership : A Free Trade Agreement?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP currently nearing its final stages of negotiation purports to be about increasing trade and economic co-operation among its twelve negotiating parties. These twelve countries include...
The Schizophrenic Australian Foreign Policy
Earlier this month on 13 May 2015 David Shear, the US Department of Defence Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs addressed the US Senate Foreign Relations committee. Mr Shear...
Abbott's Anti-Putin, Anti-China Policy puts Australia on Crash Course
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott's promise to shirt front Putin over MAS MH17 turned out to be a bluff, and Abbott's rejection of the Chinese chartered Asia...
China and South-East Asia. Part 1
