Critical minerals have become a frontline of great-power competition, with U.S. dependence on China exposing deep ...

Australia’s critical minerals push is being sold as a strategic win, but it risks doubling down on a “dumb” commodity economy ...

BYD’s Brazil factory marks a clean-tech power shift: where China builds, countries reindustrialise and plug into the future ...

The UN Security Council’s resolution 2803 (2025) dated 17 November 2025 adopting President Trump’s 20-point peace plan to end ...

Home Things happen – what did 2025 mean for international relations? Things will happen – what might 2026 bring?

Agenda is a timely reminder for us to critically assess how far we have come in recognising and responding to [...] ...

In late February, the Peoples Liberation Army-Navy (‘PLA-N’) entered Australia’s exclusive economic zone (‘EEZ’) and conducted live-firing drills off Sydney. According to strategic commentators, the ...

As we remember 50 years of the infamous constitutional crisis and Whitlam’s dismissal and celebrate the positive aspects of his legacy like Medibank, we need to also remember the much darker stories ...

The Australian Foreign Minister’s speech to the 2025 AIIA National Conference Gala Dinner outlined how Australia has strengthened major regional relationships through new treaties, upgraded ...

On 17 November 2025, the AIIA held its annual Gala Dinner, this year with keynote speaker Foreign Minister Senator the Honourable Penny Wong. Click below to see and download crowd shots, shots of the ...