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John Howard visits the troops, Solomon Islands 2003

14 December 2021

Did New Zealand put the R into RAMSI?

by James Batley

A young woman in a yellow dress and pale peach head scarf is whispering into the ear of a young woman with blonde hair wearing a khaki green shirt.

30 November 2021

An insider’s guide to changing the world

by Gordon Peake

25 November 2021

Solomon Islands’ slippery slide to self-implosion

by Transform Aqorau

A building in the city of Marawi in the southern Philippines, damaged in 2017 during an urban siege (Adam Burke-The Asia Foundation)

17 November 2021

New terrain, old problems: identity-based conflict and extremism in Asia, 2021

by Adam Burke

View of the city of Kabul with high rise buildings and snow-capped mountains in the distance.

15 October 2021

What good did we do in Afghanistan?

by Mary Venner

Photograph of people at a February 2021 protest agains the military coup in Myanmar. People are wearing masks and carrying signs. One woman holds a megaphone to her masked mouth.

7 September 2021

Australia must stand with the women of Myanmar defying military rule

by Myint Myint San, Sharman Stone and Bettina Baldeschi

25 August 2021

Debating ten years of RAMSI

by Karen Downing

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama at the launch of Halia Constituency's Development Plan

29 June 2021

Bougainville’s President Toroama: part three – a candidate in four elections 2010–20

by Anthony Regan

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama (centre) at a reconciliation ceremony in Tonu

29 June 2021

Bougainville’s President Toroama: part one – a little-known new leader

by Anthony Regan

Anti-Corruption Act 2018

10 June 2021

Solomon Islands ICAC: how did it happen?

by Grant Walton

Fisticuffs at Jacksons – addressing conflicts between rival security companies

26 March 2021

Fisticuffs at Jacksons – addressing conflicts between rival security companies

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland

17 March 2021

Doing better without aid: the case of Somaliland

by Gordon Peake

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