Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 23 February
Wednesday
23rd February
2022
TESS NEWTON CAIN | COVID-19 across the region COVID-19 continues to spread in Solomon Islands and threatens to overwhelm…
Category Archive: Commentary
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 16 February
Wednesday
16th February
2022
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Last minute reprieve for Pacific Islands Forum unity Just as we thought it was all…
Looking beyond Ukraine: A view from Australia
Friday
11th February
2022
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN | Writing on current geopolitical affairs, let alone trying to predict what 125,000 Russian troops will do…
Skating on thin ice: Xi’s omicron olympics
Monday
24th January
2022
ROWAN CALLICK | The Winter Olympic Games will be held from February 4-20 in a ‘green, safe and simple’…
Nepal’s eroding judicial independence leaves Supreme Court in limbo
Tuesday
21st December
2021
BIKRAM TIMILSINA | Nepal’s Supreme Court is in crisis due to unprecedented protests from its justices and lawyers. Despite…
The new Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces and the future of Indonesia-Australia defence relations
Friday
17th December
2021
EMILIA YSTININGRUM | On 17 November 2021, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo officially inaugurated General Andika Perkasa as the new…
Making Indo-Pacific alliances fit for deterrence
Thursday
23rd December
2021
STEPHAN FRUEHLING AND ANDREW O’NEIL | As great-power competition intensifies, the role of deterrence and the potential for escalation…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 8 December
Wednesday
8th December
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Motion of No Confidence debated in Solomon Islands Monday saw the Parliament of Solomon Islands…
Australia’s scrapping of Antarctic aerodrome could pave the runway for China
Friday
3rd December
2021
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN | While environmentalists have welcomed the Australian government’s decision to abandon the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica,…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 1 December
Wednesday
1st December
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Solomon Islands focus shifts to Parliament Further to the riots of last week in…