The Philippines contains vital terrain in maritime Southeast Asia, for the United States and its regional allies. Australia has independent reasons to be invested in the security of the Philippines. This report analyses the factors that have brought about strategic convergence between Australia and the Philippines. It offers policy recommendations to both governments for furthering...

This report analyses Australia and Indonesia's defence and wider security partnership, identifying several areas where the countries should productively concentrate their efforts in the coming years. The Australia–Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement provides useful avenues to expand the defence relationship at a time when Indonesia finds itself courted by other countries that don’t share Australia’s security...

Now that North Korea has finally reached the threshold of a nuclear missile capability to directly threaten the US mainland, its scripted brand of hyperbole and brinksmanship is encountering a different sort of melodrama - the political theatre of Donald Trump.

Scholars and policy experts debate Australian participation in the ‘Australia-India-Japan-United States consultations on the Indo-Pacific’ - known universally as the ‘Quad’.

The Australian government is enhancing its economic access to Southeast Asia in return for granting Singapore greater access to military training areas in Australia. Yet Singapore’s stock is also rising, for Australia, in the context of Southeast Asia’s growing strategic profile.