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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Weekly Pacific Bulletin | 1 December
Wednesday
1st December
2021
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Solomon Islands focus shifts to Parliament Further to the riots of last…