A new climate for human rights
Thursday
4th November
2021
SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER, CHRISTIAN LANE AND WESLEY MORGAN | This week the world turns its attention to…
Category Archive: Feature series
China, Russia and climate change: why Australia’s place at the NATO Summit was so important
Thursday
7th July
2022
SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Public Forum…
Mad world: global flashpoints to watch in 2023 in the era of ‘polycrisis’
Tuesday
10th January
2023
SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER | When 2022 began, there was trepidation about what might happen in at least ten regions.
A call to collective action
Tuesday
1st August
2023
SPEECH BY DAME MEG TAYLOR | Gathering on this land, we acknowledge the Yugara and Turrbal peoples, the traditional…
The fallen idol: Aung San Suu Kyi and the politics of personality
Wednesday
20th September
2017
ANDREW SELTH | Myanmar studies have always attracted strong views. Particularly since 1988 there has been a history of…
The Rohingya crisis and Myanmar’s military responses
Monday
27th November
2017
ANDREW SELTH | Since October 2016, when militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked three border police…
A big step back for Myanmar
Thursday
14th September
2017
ANDREW SELTH | It is always difficult to know exactly what is happening in Myanmar, particularly when eye-witness accounts…
Biggles in Burma: Giving boys what they want
Tuesday
27th March
2018
ANDREW SELTH | When British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson quoted the poem ‘Mandalay’ during a visit to Myanmar in…
Graphic novels chart Myanmar’s history
Monday
9th April
2018
ANDREW SELTH | Exotic climate, turbulent past an inspiration to comic writers Before 1988, Myanmar (then known as Burma)…
What’s in a name: Burma or Myanmar?
Friday
22nd June
2018
ANDREW SELTH | A decision by the US to accept the name Myanmar seems unlikely any time soon.