Category: Australia

  • Pro-Palestine rally in Sydney with Palestinian and Indigenous Australian flags flying

    How a re-elected Labor Government can hold Israel to account

    The ALP’s landside victory gives it the necessary political capital to hold Israel to account.
    Chris Fitzgerald/
    May 6, 2025
  • A road stop sign in front of a nuclear power plant in the distant background. Smokes billows from the nuclear reactors.

    Kazakhstan’s Turn to Nuclear

    When it comes to nuclear power, Australian and Kazakhstan share many similarities with both countries currently considering their nuclear futures. While Australian opposition leader, Peter Dutton continues to advocate for the development of a domestic nuclear power industry as part of his 2025 election campaign, Kazakhstan’s government is moving ahead with construction of its first […]
    Gulshat Rozyyeva/
    March 27, 2025
  • IDF soldiers march along a road passing a civilian.

    The Language of Landscapes in Palestine and Australia

    Earlier this year, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump asserted the US would not only take over Gaza but transform it into what he described as the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’. His comments have been roundly criticised as tantamount to a violation of the Geneva convention, which […]
    Zoe Davies/
    March 27, 2025
  • Photograph of people walking through the city streets of Canberra on a sunny day.

    Central Asian Migration Patterns and Their Implications for Australia

    Only small numbers of Central Asia migrants make their way to Australia yet the experience in the broader Asia Pacific suggests that this could be a missed opportunity for Australia to benefit from skilled Central Asian migrants.
    Gulshat Rozyyeva/
    September 11, 2024
  • Turkmenistan flag painted onto a print wall

    Turkmenistan’s Political Future amid Growing Australian Ties

    The strengthening of ties between Australia and Turkmenistan comes as domestic politics in the Central Asian states settles into a new pattern following last year’s leadership transition.
    Gulshat Rozyyeva/
    September 11, 2024
  • Melbourne, Australia. 22nd May 2021. Supporters of freedom for Palestine gather in Melbourne. Credit: Jay Kogler/Alamy Live News

    Indigenous – Palestinian solidarity networks challenging settler colonialism in Australia

    Increasingly networks are forming between Indigenous and Palestinian groups through a shared experience of colonisation. In recent years, there has been a shift at the grassroots level in Australia in support of the Palestinian cause. Solidarity networks between the Palestinian diaspora and Indigenous communities are growing wider and deeper. This has charted a new course […]
    Noura Mansour/
    May 22, 2024
  • What will be Labor’s policy on Palestine?

    With the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) victory in the Australian parliamentary elections on May 21, some policy shifts could be imminent. This is not limited to foreign policy, a space historically underpinned by broad bipartisanship in Canberra. However, ALP’s 2021 political platform suggests the party could explore a series of new approaches that reorient Australia’s […]
    Alexander Langlois/
    May 22, 2024