Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s whirlwind trip around the Pacific has dominated headlines, whilst Papua New Guinea’s election is just around the corner.

On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, George Carter and Siobhan McDonnell join us to talk about Australia’s diplomacy in the Pacific, and if the new Australian government can become the region’s “partner of choice”. 

Australia needs to look past its focus on the ‘Quad’ and its traditional partners and turn to other countries in the region if it hopes to make diplomatic progress in the Pacific, Corey Lee Bell and Elena Collinson write.

Malaysia and Indonesia are caretaker states to some of the world’s most crucial sea lines of communication, but moves toward nuclear-powered submarines could cause chaos if left unregulated, Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli writes.

In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Major General (retd) Duncan Lewis and Professor Caitlin Byrne join Professor Rory Medcalf to discuss the potential policy implications of Australia’s change in government.

While it has been relatively successful in supporting the development of traditional law enforcement in Solomon Islands, the Australian Government needs to pay greater attention to aiding economic development, Charles Hawksley writes.