Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2003 and has served as its Chairman since then. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as ...

In the space of just four months, the global aid and development landscape has changed dramatically. While much of the focus has been on President Trump’s move to shut down USAID overnight and ...

Events in the Middle East over the weekend have brought the longstanding Israel-Iran shadow war into the spotlight, compounding fears that the Gaza conflict will spill over into a… ...

Ramita Iyer is based in Singapore and writes on geopolitical and geoeconomic developments in the Indo-Pacific region. Ramita is the co-editor of two volumes, Making of the Indo-Pacific Economic ...

Danae Bosler is an Assistant Secretary at Victorian Trades Hall Council, the peak body for unions in Victoria. She is also the Secretary and Committee of Management member for APHEDA- Union Aid Abroad ...

Despite the war in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia ending in November 2022, tensions are again escalating. Locals are braced for the possibility of another outbreak of violence. The two-year ...

As India turned its focus westward to confront Pakistan after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir, China subtly reaffirmed its territorial claims along the contested border in India’s northeastern ...

During the recent International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings, US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent criticised both institutions for mission creep and stressed the need for them to “step ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s drive to centralise power in his own hands, his elimination of term limits and thus the process of orderly succession, and (largely aspirational) personality cult draw ...

Papua New Guinea kicked off a festival of 50th anniversary independence celebrations last month with breathless fanfare that will run well into the rest of the year. The national milestone will fall ...

Most Australians continue to support Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, amid the news that the Trump administration will carry out a 30-day review of the AUKUS arrangement.The 2025 ...

In November, South Africa will host the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place on African soil. It will also be the fourth consecutive host in the Global South, following meetings in Indonesia, ...