Analysis
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Japan’s Suga crawls but needs to sprint
TOKYO – Japan needed a bang. What it got was a whimper. Case in point? Yoshihide Suga. William Pesek Asia…
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Aged care isn’t working, but we can create neighbourhoods to support healthy ageing in place
How we plan for ageing populations and older people is one critical issue that has been neglected for decades. Authors…
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Australia must do more to ensure Myanmar is preventing genocide against the Rohingya
Since then, Amnesty International has questioned whether Myanmar has been fully transparent in its reporting on its compliance with the…
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The U.S. Presidential Election: Managing the Risks of Violence
It is conceivable that violence could erupt during voting or protracted ballot counts. ICG Officials should take extra precautions; media…
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Rather than recalling unsafe products, why not ensure they’re safe in the first place?
About 20 Australian children a week are hospitalised due to swallowing batteries, and three have died since 2013. Luke Nottage…
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What Americans Can Learn From Their Isolationist Past
Kupchan seeks to do just that in his new book. We present here two timely excerpts. Charles A. Kupchan The…
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The war against plastic is distracting us from pollution that cannot be seen
In a collaboration with experts from the environmental sciences, engineering, industry, policy and charities, we have written a paper in…
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Georgia and Russia: Why and How to Save Normalisation
But whoever wins at the polls should not abandon dialogue, but rather build on it to frankly discuss these problems.…
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Distress, depression and drug use: young people fear for their future after the bushfires
Already, the commission’s officials have warned the status quo is “no longer enough to defend us from the impact of…
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Daylight saving time: five tips to help you better adjust to the clock change
While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal power, today the benefits are disputed. Gisela Helfer The…
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Asian countries do aged care differently.
Unlike in Western countries like Australia, traditional Asian cultures place a heavy emphasis on filial piety — the expectation children…
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What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, explains how he made peace…
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Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence
As U.S. elections approach, extremist activity, the potential for contestation and President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to transferring power…
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Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
The next test will be whether the result entrenches minority grievances that fuel armed conflict or revives reform efforts to…
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Bob Brown is right – it’s time environmentalists talked about the population problem
Politicians don’t like talking about it. Colin D. Butler The Conversation By and large, neither do environmentalists – but former…
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The US is taking on Google in a huge antitrust case.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for unlawful monopolisation. Katharine Kemp The Conversation…
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