Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force replenishment ship JS Tokiwa wave the Japanese Rising Sun flag and Australian flag during a Replenishment at Sea on Operation Argos 2025
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Realising the grand bargain potential of the Australia-Japan Special Strategic Partnership
In this Policy Options Paper, Dr Euan Graham calls for deeper Australia-Japan cooperation to strengthen their economic and security partnership.
  • Japan
  • bilateral partnership
  • Economic security
  • strategic competition
Flags of Australia and Bangladesh
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New Indo-Pacific partnership: Building Australia-Bangladesh security ties
David Brewster outlines why Australia should develop its defence and security relationship with Bangladesh, and what steps it should take.
  • Australia
  • Bangladesh
  • Indo-Pacific strategy
  • bilateral partnership
  • Indian Ocean
Anthony Albanese takes a selfie with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September,
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Plunging trust in Washington tests US alliance as Australia navigates rising security threats
Peter Tesch writes how declining trust in Washington is testing Australia’s US alliance amid growing security threats.
  • Aus-US alliance
  • geopolitics
  • bilateral partnership
Guests at NSC roundtable with Dr Euan Graham
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Rethinking the Australia–Japan strategic partnership
The NSC hosted a roundtable exploring how Australia and Japan can deepen their strategic partnership through stronger defence, economic and technological cooperation.
  • Japan
  • bilateral partnership
  • geopolitics

Australia and Indonesia deal won't bind nations in war
David Andrews interview | AAP

Time for a big idea to secure Solomons partnership
Anthony Bergin and John Stephen | The Australian

Plunging trust in Washington tests US alliance as Australia navigates rising security threats
Peter Tesch | The Australian