Oceania

What saves political parties is their ability to adapt, but the aggressive populism that has saved conservative parties elsewhere has limited appeal in Australia.

Australia is planning a constitutional referendum on creating an Indigenous Voice in Parliament, but the move has generated controversy.

Beyond responding to the China threat, AUKUS is also a tool to maintain U.S. Indo-Pacific engagement through whatever domestic storms are to come in Washington.

Amid rapidly evolving diplomacy in the Middle East, the time might be right for New Zealand to take another look at Iraq.

Queensland’s new crackdown on youth offenders will be “felt for generations,” experts warn.

The impact of AUKUS is likely to be profoundly consequential across a wider purview of government, policy, economic structure, and national identity.

“These are gigantic amounts of rainfall… I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind that climate change has influenced the event.”

Prime Minister Albanese called the AUKUS deal “the biggest single investment in Australia’s defense capability in all of our history.”

Left unchecked, tensions, which have sparked vandalism of Hindu temples and attacks on Sikhs, have the potential to poison the Australia-India bilateral relationship.

The two sides did not directly refer to the war in Ukraine but praised their growing cooperation in defense and security.

Prime Minister Albanese is in India until March 11. After that, he will head to the U.S. in a trip that may provide more details about the AUKUS submarine deal.