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Where to from stabilisation in Australia-China relations?
Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 7:58 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes
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Ep. 119: When domestic policy is foreign policy (and the PMs travels)
Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes
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Ep. 118: A US perspective on Australias defence policy
Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 7:57 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 117: Canada-India (emergency episode)
Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 9:36 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep. 116: Australias international development policy
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 12:19 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 48 seconds
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Ep. 115: The domestic politics of AUKUS and Pacific security pacts
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 5:46 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep. 114: And were back. Australia-China; US-China
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds
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Allan Gyngell and Australia in the world
Published: May 6, 2023, 12:44 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 112: Cold War 2?
Published: April 3, 2023, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds
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Ep. 111: AUKUS plans; India; red alerts
Published: March 19, 2023, 11:51 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 110: Ukraine, one year on
Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 11:37 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 55 seconds
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Ep. 109: Balloons; FMs UK speech; France 2+2; DM on sovereignty
Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 6:17 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds
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Ep. 108: PM in PNG; duelling ambassadors; reviewing 2022
Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 11:06 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 107: Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts
Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 48 seconds
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Ep. 106: FMs DC speech; 2+2s ; a polycrisis?
Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 105: G20/Xi bilaterals; FM/DM speeches; midterms
Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 12 seconds
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Ep. 104: 20th Party Congress; export controls; Australia-Japan
Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds
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Ep. 103: Nuclear escalation; UNGA meetings; Track 1.5s
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 10:01 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds
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Ep. 102: A formal statement on China? Australias head of state
Published: Sept. 18, 2022, 4:53 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds
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Ep. 101: Taiwan
Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 100: Foreign Minister Penny Wong
Published: Aug. 16, 2022, 10:04 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds
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Ep. 99: Much travel & many speeches; PRC meeting; PIF; Lowy poll
Published: July 18, 2022, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds
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Ep. 98: A (very) busy first few weeks
Published: June 20, 2022, 12:52 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 5 seconds
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Ep. 97: Incoming government brief, 2022 edition
Published: May 28, 2022, 12:28 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 96: Campaign foreign policy lessons; AUKUS leaks?
Published: May 18, 2022, 7:05 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 12 seconds
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Ep. 95: Solomon Islands and China enter a security pact
Published: April 24, 2022, 10:43 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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Ep. 94: Pre-election foreign policy speeches by Morrison and Albanese
Published: March 24, 2022, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds
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Ep. 93: The invasion of Ukraine and updating priors
Published: March 6, 2022, 10:48 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 31 seconds
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Ep. 92: Our own foreign policy election debate
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 90: Lessons from 2021; expectations and hopes for 2022
Published: Jan. 13, 2022, 9:03 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds
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Ep. 89: Democracy summit; S. Korea visit; Olympic boycott; communicating foreign policy
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 88: Biden/Xi; Dutton/Wong; COP26; Solomon Islands
Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 49 seconds
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Ep. 87: On truth and trust in diplomacy (Morrison vs Macron)
Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 22 seconds
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Ep. 86: Global Trends 2040 (Part 2), with Heather Smith and Katherine Mansted
Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 17 seconds
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Ep. 85: Global Trends 2040 (Part 1), with Heather Smith and Katherine Mansted
Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 51 seconds
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Ep. 84: AUKUS revisited; Quad leaders; China & CPTPP; Taiwan
Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 4:07 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 20 seconds
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Ep. 83: Debating AUKUSDeterrence, sovereignty and risk
Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 11:19 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 29 seconds
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Ep. 82: Afghanistan evacuation; US alliance at 70; ministerial meetings; 9/11 reflections
Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 3:29 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 5 seconds
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Ep. 81: Gary Quinlan (Part 2): Australia-Indonesia relations, ASEAN, and the future of multilateralism
Published: Aug. 28, 2021, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 38 seconds
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Ep. 80: Gary Quinlan (Part 1): On Indonesia in the world, and diplomacy in a time of COVID-19
Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 8:16 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 17 seconds
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Ep. 79: Afghanistan
Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 3:41 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 38 seconds
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Ep. 78: New DFAT Secretary; Exchange hack and Pegasus; APEC; return to Afghanistan?
Published: July 24, 2021, 4:38 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 77: Debating democracy and the competition of systems
Published: July 1, 2021, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds
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Ep. 76: Morrisons Perth speech; PM Lees China advice; an energised G7; bilaterals with UK & France
Published: June 19, 2021, 4:19 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 75: PM to NZ; Samoa; Kabul embassy closure; Belarus; lab leak
Published: June 9, 2021, 7:16 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
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Ep. 74: Linda Jakobson (Part 2): Australia-China relations; Taiwan
Published: May 28, 2021, 9 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds
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Ep. 73: Linda Jakobson (Part 1): On China, Chinese politics, and Finlandisation
Published: May 26, 2021, 8:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 seconds
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Ep. 72: Leaving Afghanistan; Aust-NZ-China relations; Biden-Suga summit
Published: April 25, 2021, 3:28 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep. 71: Myanmartragedy, complexity & power; PNG & Covid-19; Dutton to Defence
Published: April 15, 2021, 4:30 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 36 seconds
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Ep. 70: Alaska, competitive co-existence & duelling sanctions; Quad outcomes; OECD Cormann
Published: March 29, 2021, 4:57 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds
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Ep. 69: Bidens early days; Quad; Pacific Islands Forum
Published: March 13, 2021, 5:27 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep. 68: Natasha Kassam on preparing for a China-led world
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 11:11 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds
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Ep. 67: NZ-China-Australia; Myanmar; Xi's WEF speech; Australia-Malaysia CSP
Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds
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Ep. 66: Revisiting the Capitol; a declassified Indo-Pacific strategy; Five Countries (!), & fresh ideas for Aussie FP?
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds
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Ep. 65: Processing events at the U.S. Capitol
Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 64: A cabinet reshuffle, politician ambassadors, the Richardson Review and summer homework
Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 4:07 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds
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Ep. 63: Climate change and Australia, with Howard Bamsey
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 5:33 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep. 62: A wild week in Australia-China relations
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 1:39 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 53 seconds
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Ep. 61: Short- and long-term questions for Australian foreign policy
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 10:15 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 60: US election rapid reactions
Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds
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Ep. 59: Malabar and an emerging balancing coalition; Senator Abetz and loyalty tests; diplomacy and quarantine
Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 9:23 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 58: Mailbag! US failures; fearing abandonment; the Quad & democracy; grading China policy; DFAT in 2050
Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 5:57 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds
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Ep. 57: Foreign interference & the Australia-China relationship; trilaterals; PM Suga; Thai protests
Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 12:11 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 56: Aussie journalists depart China (and other bilateral tensions); Foreign Relations Bill; Abes legacy; Tony Abbott
Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 7:35 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 26 seconds
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Ep. 55: Richard Maude returns (Part 2): China, models of cooperation, & what Australian foreign policy can do
Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 1 second
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Ep. 54: Richard Maude returns (Part 1), and Darren in the Beirut Blast
Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 7:26 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 26 seconds
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Ep. 53: Consulate closures & deteriorating US-China relations; AUSMIN; Defence Strategic Update
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 52: ABC journalist Stephen Dziedzic on reporting Australian foreign policy, media-govt relations, and the Wolverines
Published: July 18, 2020, 7:44 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep 51: Lowy Poll 2020; India-China; DFAT's travel advice for China; Allan's brush with tabloid fame
Published: July 4, 2020, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 54 seconds
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Frances Adamson, DFAT Secretary, on our 50th episode
Published: June 24, 2020, 8:45 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 17 seconds
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Ep. 49: US turmoil; India CSP; G-7; WHO lessons; HK; Australian geoeconomics
Published: June 14, 2020, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds
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Ep. 48: Harinder Sidhu, former High Commissioner to India, on the Australia-India relationship
Published: June 2, 2020, 3:33 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 47: Heather Smith on fixing the G20, industrial policy, tech competition, and what economists get wrong
Published: May 13, 2020, 8:45 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds
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Ep. 46: Australia-China tensions over a Covid-19 inquiry
Published: May 6, 2020, 10:25 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 45: The WHO; mask diplomacy; DFAT & Covid-19
Published: April 23, 2020, 4:19 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 1 second
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Ep. 44: The United States, and the alliance
Published: April 9, 2020, 4:13 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 39 seconds
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Ep. 43: The consequences of Covid-19
Published: March 28, 2020, 5:57 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 45 seconds
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Ep. 42: Covid-19 update; ASIO speaks; Morrison hosts Jokowi & Ardern
Published: March 9, 2020, 7:26 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep. 41: Richard Maude on the Indo-Pacific, models of world politics, and Australian foreign policy
Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes
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Ep. 40: Coronavirus; Huawei in the UK; the WTO, and UK / EU trade deals
Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 10:49 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 39: The 2020 Raisina Dialogue
Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds
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Ep. 38: Gordon de Brouwer on economics vs security, climate change, and effective policymaking
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 3 seconds
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Ep. 37: The bushfires, internationally; the Soleimani killing; reviewing 2019, looking ahead to 2020
Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 36: Ex-ASIO head Duncan Lewis (Part 2): foreign interference and national security policymaking in Australia
Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 1 second
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Ep. 35: Ex-ASIO head Duncan Lewis (Part 1): on his military & govt career, and the challenge of terrorism
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 4:58 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 53 seconds
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Ep. 34: All things China (again)! Defectors? Sleeper agents? MP visas & Hong Kong
Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 9:24 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 18 seconds
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Ep. 33: US leadership: vision vs reality; RCEP; human rights in China; Syria, the Kurds and US credibility
Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 8:23 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes
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Ep. 32: The Australia-China Relationship
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep. 31: Debating PM Morrisons Lowy Lecture
Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 9:40 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 47 seconds
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Ep. 30: Australias High Commissioners to Solomon Islands and Samoa discuss diplomacy in the Pacific
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 7:44 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds
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Ep. 29: PM Morrison visits the Trump White House; prisoners in Iran; energy security; a visit by Fijis PM; climate change
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 6:25 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 41 seconds
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Ep. 28: PMs trips to Vietnam & the G7; alliance management in the Gulf; Kashmir; PNG
Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
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Ep. 27: Clare Walsh, DFAT Deputy Secretary on multilateralism, aid and development
Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 27 seconds
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Ep. 26: AUSMIN; Hastie op-ed; HK protests in Australia; Pacific Islands Forum
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 8 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds
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Ep. 25: David Gruen, Australias G20 Sherpa
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 7:39 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 55 seconds
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Ep. 24: Director-General of ASIS in his first ever interview
Published: July 24, 2019, 1:58 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 39 seconds
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Ep. 23: Morrisons Asialink-Bloomberg speech; Lowy Poll; G20
Published: July 7, 2019, 10:16 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds
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Ep. 22: Hong Kong protests; Shangri-La Dialogue; US-Iran tensions
Published: June 24, 2019, 5:15 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds
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Ep. 21: Interview with Rebecca Skinner, Associate Secretary at Defence
Published: June 6, 2019, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 20: Huawei and decoupling; PNG; four elections; new ambassadors; Bob Hawke
Published: May 30, 2019, 8:07 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes
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Ep. 19: An incoming government brief: What will the election winner face in the new term?
Published: May 15, 2019, 9:08 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds
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Ep. 18: Terrorism and counter-terrorism in the wake of the Sri Lanka attacks
Published: May 5, 2019, 8:20 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds
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Ep. 17: Geoeconomics; Australias consular operations
Published: April 19, 2019, 5:29 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 43 seconds
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Ep. 16: Brexit, more Brexit, & new funding for Australia-China relations
Published: April 5, 2019, 7:28 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds
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Ep. 15: Towards reinvigorating Australian foreign policy studies (LIVE @ ANU)
Published: March 18, 2019, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 12 seconds
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Ep. 14: North Korea after Hanoi; India-Pakistan crisis deescalates; Indonesian FTA
Published: March 14, 2019, 9:33 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 20 seconds
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Ep. 13: Five eyes and 5G infrastructure; problems for Aussie coal
Published: March 1, 2019, 5:35 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds
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Ep. 12: What we learned from 2018, looking ahead to 2019
Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 8:28 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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Ep. 11: Dennis Richardson
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep. 10: ASPIs Danielle Cave and Tom Uren on cyber
Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 7:22 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds
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Ep. 9: US-China rivalry through the lens of regional summitry
Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 10:44 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 8: Australian foreign policy speeches, China and Australia's South Pacific pivot/balance, Victoria on the Belt and Road, US midterms and Brazils new president
Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 11:14 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 24 seconds
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Ep. 7: Jerusalem and the Iran nuclear deal, Khashoggi and Myanmar, Trump vs. the INF and UPU, and quieter Australian diplomacy
Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep. 6: Mike Pences Hudson Institute speech and the state of Sino-US relations
Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 11:21 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 5: UN General Assembly Meetings; US-China trade war; Australian foreign aid
Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 15 seconds
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Ep. 4: Change at the top; Huawei and 5G, PM Morrison to Indonesia
Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 6:54 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 31 seconds
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Ep. 3: Turnbulls China reset speech, Australias soft power review, and interview with Miles Kupa
Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 6:19 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 53 seconds
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Episode 1: The rules-based international order with Allan Gyngell and Darren Lim
Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 2:37 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds
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Episode 2: Elections in Pakistan and Cambodia, the new trilateral infrastructure investment fund, and how worried should Australia be about the United States?
Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 9:59 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds
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