Penny Wong has called on Israel to stop “the attacking of hospitals” in Gaza. Australia was...
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Israel faces excruciating dilemmas in its fight to save hostages
Israel has agreed to daily military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes. But a...
Israel-Hamas: humanitarian pauses and hostages
George Orwell once observed that in war pacifists harm the military effort of their democracy and...
Humane hope is conflict ends with swift elimination of Hamas
In war, the humanitarian needs of a civilian population caught in the crossfire need to be met. A...
Seabed mining rules lapse is window for Pacific regulations
In late July, after weeks of fierce debate at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) meeting in...
Australia and Israel have a common blue economy future
Around the world, sustainable ocean economic activity, or the blue economy, is swelling. This...
We need a national citizens’ militia
Successive Australian governments have had a phobia about being seen, even remotely, to support...
America walks the walk in battle for Pacific minds
NATO leaders gather in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, this week and Ukraine will dominate the...
Indian Ocean environmental security needs a regional centre
Environmental challenges such as climate change, marine plastic pollution and illegal, unreported,...
The internet relies on things: vulnerable undersea cables
According to Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, Russia could destroy subsea cables in...
Our chance to take charge of seabed mining legislation
The extraction of deep seabed mining resources on an industrial scale at incredible depths is a...
To prevent a China war, we must bind ourselves to Taiwan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just issued a warning to China over Taiwan. Delivering the...
Tug-of-war existence between Taiwan and China
I stood on Cihu beach, on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, contemplating the hazy silhouettes of...
A ready reserve of nation’s civilian fleet makes sense for the RAN
Recent revelations that China has launched multiple new civilian ferries that could be used as...
Emergency training program would help plug ADF gap
The Defence Strategic Review recommended our fighting forces be released from most of their...
Modi goes to PNG – why it matters to the region and Australia
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Papua New Guinea early next week and then go on to...
Climate changes the role of Australian police in the Pacific
The Defence Strategic Review points out that if climate change accelerates over coming decades it...
‘When China Attacks: A Warning to America’ by Grant Newsham
As a Chinese spy balloon flew over the US earlier this year many Americans may have asked what’s...