Young Australians in International Affairs

Max Martin |Australian Foreign Policy Fellow Image sourced from Cabinet Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons Since the end of the Second World War, Australia and Japan have transformed their relationship from one defined by wartime memory into a close strategic partnership. Long anchored in trade, investment and shared reliance on the United States (US), the relationship is now sha...

Isabelle Powell | United States Fellow Image sourced from Rob Walsh via Unsplash In 2016, Donald Trump captured the hearts of millions of working class Americans by campaigning on the pertinent issues of income inequality and job scarcity, reaching communities in the industrial Rust Belt and all across America. His message rang clear: Washington must prioritise its own economic ...

Mikey Glover | Climate and Environment Fellow Image sourced from Markus Spiske via Unsplash. In February 2026, a North Dakota judgment ordered Greenpeace USA to pay US$345 million to Energy Transfer Partners (ETP). Ostensibly, the lawsuit found that Greenpeace’s support of environmental and Native American advocacy groups in the 2016 Standing Rock protests amounted to illegal ac...

Zara Lawrence Image sourced from Kalea Morgan via Unsplash “The only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.” - The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, 2024 During his Prime Ministership, Malcolm Turnbull maintained his relationship with Donald Trump under this philosophy. This came to the fore in 2017, when Trump threatened to tear up an agreement made with the Obama Administration...

Piper Stock | Indo-Pacific Fellow Image sourced from Cabinet Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons For nearly eight decades, a single clause in Japan's constitution has defined the country's place in the world. Article 9 was written into law in 1946. It renounced war as a sovereign right and prohibited Japan from maintaining any war potential. At the time, it was an extraordinary le...