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Jessica Brown – Indonesia’s Strategic Role in a Changing Southeast Asia
March 6, 2011
Malaysia’s phony war on affirmative action
John LeeMarch 4, 2011Business Week

When then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launched his Vision 2020 in 1991, Malaysia's reputation as a...

Can Indonesia’s recent past become Egypt’s near future?
March 4, 2011

While the attention of the world this week turned to events unfolding in Libya, unresolved...

The problem with China’s banks – unknown and unknowable
John LeeMarch 2, 2011The Asian Banker

In a recent conversation with a senior executive at the Bank of China, I asked...

Moving Malaysia on from affirmative action policies
John LeeFebruary 25, 2011

Malaysia has the most extensive racial affirmative action regime of any country in Asia. Since...

Indonesia’s tightrope act
February 25, 2011The Gulf News

When Barack Obama visited Jakarta last November, he was met by a throng of excited...

Gorillas In The Mist. How government obscures its spending
Gene TunnyNovember 21, 2024PP59

Executive Summary Government overreach: The federal government’s planned $78 billion of off-budget measures over the...

The Future of Australian Multiculturalism
Peter Kurti, Damien Freeman, Jonathan Cole, Bryan TurnerOctober 24, 2024AP76
The tolerance and diversity of which we have been rightly proud has given way to...
The Coming Global Depopulation. John Bonython Lecture 2024
Nicholas Eberstadt October 16, 2024OP204
What lies ahead? What will depopulation mean for society, the economy, politics and international relations?...
Land Use Restrictions and the Australian Housing Policy Debate
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Planning restrictions are a major reason why housing in Australia is so expensive. For example,...
Truth Decay
Andrew BellOctober 3, 2024OP203
The issue with which this year’s lecture engages is truth and the challenges presented by...
The Rise of Activist Corporations: How activism agendas subsumed shareholder primacy
Peter Swan AOSeptember 26, 2024OP202
Australian companies have been shifting from a purely shareholder focus to a much vaguer, less...
Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Tom SwitzerMarch 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic...

Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Andrew BlythSeptember 3, 2024SPECTATOR

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive...

It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
Tom SwitzerAugust 10, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have...

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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Tom SwitzerJune 10, 2024MODERN AGE

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired...

Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

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