This paper argues that the India-China great power rivalry is shaping up to be the story of the first part of the twenty-first century.

This report examines steps taken recently by the Australian Government to transfer asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to third countries for the processing of their claims for protection. This paper discusses a number of the Commission’s concerns about third country processing of asylum seekers’ claims for protection, and outlines the human rights...

This working paper discusses the need to for Australia to further strengthen its economic ties with other South East Asian nations, making particular reference to future international trade. The impetus for strengthening regional financial safety nets among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) came following the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997/98...

There are approximately 2 billion English speakers globally, while English is spoken by about 800 million people in Asia and is widely used as an official language in the region. Multicultural Australia is also home to approximately 2.2 million speakers of Asian languages, including more than 650,000 speakers of Chinese languages, and extensive Asian cultural...

On 13 August 2012, the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers released its report containing a suite of measures and recommendations to the Government on how best to deal with asylum seeker issues in the short, medium and long term. One of the short-term measures recommended was a proposal to re-establish offshore processing facilities in Nauru...