Australia’s foreign policy has consistently identified Timor-Leste as a country of the most immediate importance to Australia. As one of Australia’s closest neighbours, this paper argues that Timor-Leste needs to be front and centre in Australia’s strategic outlook, foreign policy and personal connections.

This research shows how the Chinese Communist Party uses tailored, reactive messaging in response to regional events, and analyses the effectiveness of that messaging in shifting public discourse online.

The authors of this paper argue that governments must pursue a deterrence strategy that seeks to change the People’s Republic of China's thinking on coercive tactics by reducing the perceived benefits and increasing the costs. The strategy should be based on policies that build deterrence in three forms: resilience, denial and punishment.

This paper argues that while mechanisms for coordinating Australia’s statecraft already exist, they are insufficient for ensuring that policy-making, decision-making and implementation are consistently and most effectively joined up. It also suggests there is scope for greater strategic guidance, as well as improved structures and processes at the political and bureaucratic level, for running international...

In this policy paper, members of the University of Adelaide Security in the Pacific Islands team present the component parts of the webs of statecraft that partner states are weaving in the Pacific Islands region.