🌏 Just launched: Southeast Asia Shared Futures 🌏 As part of our Pulse Check x Southeast Asia project, Shared Futures report and interactive webpage brings together insights from 360+ experts across nine Southeast Asian countries. Shared Futures highlights the region’s

Happy to have edited this edition with three great contributors. We'll run a companion edition with some Australian voices soon.

How are disruptions to foreign assistance playing out in Southeast Asia? And how should Australia respond? Last week, the Lab released the Pulse Check x U.S. Aid Disruptions, a report compiling views from 150+ leading experts from across Southeast Asia and Australia. For a

Join the Lab's Senior Analyst Mira Sulistiyanto as she showcases our latest research on U.S. Foreign Assistance disruptions alongside Matthew Maury, Jenny Gordon, Nathan Hansford and Bethany Allen. Online next Thursday, 27 March at 1 pm AEDT. You can register via Zoom at:

Where is “the archipelago” and why does it matter that 🇦🇺 defence discussions consistently avoid being explicit about where we expect the ADF to operate in time of conflict. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Our full analysis coming tomorrow...

The 2025-26 Australian Federal Budget was released last night - what does it mean for Australia’s international priorities? We've broken down the key changes in defence, development, diplomacy, intelligence and international policing against 25 years of budget history. 🔴

'Experts across Southeast Asia have been clear on how Australia should respond to US aid cuts: ensuring stability in existing programs is the top priority,' writes William Leben. aspistrategist.org.au/australias-int…

A few weeks ago we hosted three authors from PNG and asked "50 years of independence in PNG: What do we need to think about for the future of the Australia-PNG partnership?" So, this week on the Intel we’ve asked the same question – but looked in the mirror. 👉 Forridel's Ian

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

With Cambodia and Vietnam the hardest hit in the world by Trump's tariffs (49% and 46%), the timing for Xi's trip to Southeast Asia just got even better. 👇

In the latest episode of the ANU National Security College podcast, #AP4D's Melissa Conley Tyler & Development Intelligence Lab's Mira Sulistiyanto join host David M. Andrews to unpack the implications of global #development disruptions and what Australia’s role and response should be. Tune in at shows.acast.com/the-national-s….

The withdrawal of US aid dollars, a looming reduction in US diplomatic posts and the Trump administration’s tariffs are delivering a blow to stability in the Indo-Pacific. The Lab’s CEO, Bridi Rice, spoke to Ben Packham for The The Australian: “For Australia, this may mean

And it's done. The push to oust Manele fizzles, and the motion of no confidence is withdrawn. Sogavare remains on opposition bench. Parliament adjourns, and Manele - who is sometimes too quickly underestimated - remains Prime Minister

Our new analysis, Pulse Check x Australia’s Agenda, is here! 🌏 130+ of Australia’s top non-government international affairs experts shared their thoughts on what should drive the Australian Government’s agenda this coming term. They answered three tough questions: 🔴